Time, temperature and date display on Chmelový maják (The Hop lighthouse) in Žatec
N 50° 19.482 E 013° 32.729
33U E 396464 N 5575744
Depicted huge LED display (240×120 cm), showing time, date and temperature, is located on the top of modern lookout tower called "Chmelový maják" ("The Hop lighthouse") in complex of "Temple of Hops and Beer" ("Chrám Chmele a Piva") in Žatec.
Waymark Code: WM12JR1
Location: Ústecký kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 06/06/2020
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Depicted huge LED display (240×120 cm), showing time, date and temperature, is located on the top of modern lookout tower called "Chmelový maják" ("The Hop lighthouse") in complex of "Temple of Hops and Beer" ("Chrám Chmele a Piva") in Žatec.
Chmelový maják - the 40-meter quadrilateral steel tower with an external staircase and an elevator in the middle was built in 2010. The top of this building consists of 7 steel tubes, which symbolically represent the hop garden. From the open gallery of the tower at a height of 36 meters there is a beautiful circular view of the whole of Žatec, especially the town monument reserve. The peaks of the Bohemian Central Mountains, the Krušné and Doupovské mountains then appear on the horizon. The lookout tower is part of a whole complex of to museum rebuilt and reconstructed historic buildings associated with the development of hop growing from the early Middle Ages to the present - "Temple of Hops and Beer" ("Chrám Chmele a Piva").