Horology

A meticulously restored 100-year-old clock, identical to the stolen one, is set to be installed within a month on the iconic clock tower in the southern province of Antalya, one of the major tourist attractions in the country.

Clock tower projects planned to be built in city centers are booming in towns and cities across Turkey.

Municipality projects for the construction of clock towers have gained momentum over the last six months, with hundreds of municipalities across the country initiating tenders for clock towers of various shapes and sizes.

At 4 AM on Sunday the clocks will be set one hour back, reminds the Meteorological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Thus the country returns to astronomical time until the last Saturday of March.

BELGRADE - The clock tower of the Belgrade fortress, built in the 18th century - from 1740 to 1789 - will be opened to visitors on Thursday, April 10.

Once the reconstruction of access routes and works on the clock mechanism are complete, the tower will once again be open to sightseers every day.

At 3 am on March 30, Bulgarians moved clocks one hour forward to 4 am, switching to Daylight Savings Time.

Clocks are advanced by one hour in spring and moved back in autumn, to make the most of seasonal daylight.

DST is observed in all of the countries of Europe except Iceland, Belarus, and Russia.