Tower of Kamyenyets Facts
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On January 30, 2004, the site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List, in the Cultural category.
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The red-brick tower with service and residential rooms on 5 levels inside was actually a donjon or a keep, that was quite common in France and England till the 16th century.
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Tower of Kamyenyets is 30 meters high, the redbrick walls are about 2.5 m thick, with a pitched roof at the top.
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The first record in the chronicles about the foundation of the tower dates from 1276.
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Tower of Kamyenyets was Erected between 1271 and 1289 by the architect Oleksa as a frontier stronghold on the northern border of the Principality of Volhynia, it is the only such tower remaining to this day in Belarus.
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Since 1960 the tower houses a branch of the Brest regional museum.
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In 1903, The Brickwork was repaired 10,000 Bricks were used to repair the Tower.
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The Tower of Kamyenyets, often called by the misnomer the White Tower is the main landmark of the town of Kamyenyets in Belarus.
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The Kamenets Tower is also known as the White Tower
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The brickwork features a peculiar Baltic bond: a course consists of 2 stretchers and 1 header.