Das Spittlertor

The old town of Nürnberg has a wall surrounding most of it and the wall has lots of towers, this Blip is the tower at the Spittlertor which translates as "Gate Of The Spittlers" because I can't be @rsed to find out more about what a Spittler is.

Long conference day - 9 hours in total, including 2 and a half hours about Unicode which was really interesting (not being sarcastic, it was really good).  But the most interesting thing I learned today was about the Clock on the Rathaus (Town Hall) in Fürth (a city right next to Nürnberg).  At Midday the clock chimes its usual chimes, but since 2007 at 4 minutes past midday it plays another tune.  The clock chimes Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven".

That has got to be best trivia I've heard in years.