Eger minaret

Heves County · Hungary

Eger minaret, Hungary
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A slender fourteen-sided sandstone minaret in Eger, all that remains of a mosque demolished after the Ottoman withdrawal. Rising about forty metres, it is the northernmost surviving Ottoman minaret in Europe and can be climbed by a narrow interior stair.

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