Water tower Photo: Water tower

Water tower Kasia and Basia – an unusual urban decoration and the monument of industrial architecture of the late XIX, early XX century. They are built of red brick, decorated with coloured and white plaster. Octagonal towers have 4 tiers, floors – wood. Covered vosmiletnie roofs. Inside the towers, in the upper part are water tanks in the center - is a pipe for supplying water.

The towers height is 22 meters. West tower, which is now painted in pink, erected in 1890, Oriental (yellow) – in 1905. West tower supposedly built in neo-Renaissance style and is richly decorated with pilasters, pilasters, crackers, scalloped trims, lucarnes. The Eastern tower decor easier, but there is a balcony, where workers art workshops bred flowers.

The Western tower was opened for the very first Grodno water opposite Skidelsky market. The second was built when the first failed to cope with the necessary city volume of water.

There is a legend about why the tower is so called. Old-timers say that in one tower was formerly the water utility accounting and worked as a bookkeeper by the name Basia. The other were some warehouses and store-Keeper it was Kasia.

Now the towers are art workshops, in which you can see photos of the artists ' works. Near one of the towers is an unusual sculptural composition: thick black cat, dreamy looks at Starling, sitting next to his bronze nesting on inaccessible to the cat's height.

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