Florentine Tower in the heart of West Yorkshire
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Here's an easy way to avoid Florence’s queues - head instead for West Yorkshire. The 220ft clock tower of Bradford City Hall is a perfect copy of the Campanile bell tower of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.
It was built by wool barons were desperate to out-do rival town halls in Leeds and Halifax. Latin replicas are also dotted round the city; the Devere warehouse in Vicar Lane is a copy of an Italian Palazzo and The Telegraph and Argus building replicates an Italian merchant’s palace. The Victorian clock tower dominates the city but you have to contact the council in advance to arrange a tour.
The façade of the original Town Hall is adorned with thirty-five statues of rulers of England from the Norman Conquest up to Queen Victoria. Each statue is said to be a faithful likeness and each one was carved by the London firm of Farmer & Brindley from a piece of Cliffe Wood stone (a local quarry)
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