The pentagonal plan
Different from every other tower in the citadel.
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Nine survive of fourteen, each named for its guild: the **Clock Tower** (built by the town, the only one entered with a ticket, holding the history museum), the tanners, the tinsmiths, the butchers, the furriers, the tailors (with a gate the road passes through), the blacksmiths, the ropemakers (the only inhabited one — the cemetery keeper lives in it), and the bootmakers. Most are seen from outside only, and a walk round the walls passes all of them in about forty minutes.
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The Tinsmiths' Tower is one of the nine surviving towers of Sighișoara's walls, standing on the southern wall above a steep drop towards the lower town. It was built in the fifteenth century within a defensive system that was simple and logical: every craft guild in the town built a tower, paid for its upkeep, and defended it with its own members in a siege. That is why each tower differs from the next in shape and size — a guild's strength was measured by its tower. The Tinsmiths' is pentagonal, of two storeys, with arrow slits. The trade itself is worth noticing: makers of tin and sheet-metal vessels were an important guild in a trading town, tin being the metal of household ware before pottery and glass spread. **The tower is seen from outside only** and is not normally entered; it is a stop on the walk along the southern walls.
Different from every other tower in the citadel.
A southern route passing several towers.
Southern wall, Sighișoara Citadel