Clock Tower, Zaachila, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America

The Kremlin clocktower in Red Square, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Moscow, Russia, Europe

Two young women looking at map, with Big Ben in background, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

View from the Two Towers of Piazza di Porta Ravegnana, Bologna, Emilia Romagna, Italy, Europe

View of one of the two noon guns at Lion Battery on Signal Hill in Cape Town. The daily noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest living tradition and the two cannons used are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They have marked the midday hour in the mother city in this distinctive, albeit noisy manner since early 1806. The cannons were cast in Britain in 1794 and still bear the royal crest of King George the third. The firing of the cannon was originally to give ships in the bay a means of re-setting their clocks accurately.

Chief Petty Officer Dudley Malgas using a wooden ram rod to push the charge into the muzzle of the noon gun cannon in Cape Town. The daily noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest living tradition and the two cannons used are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They have marked the midday hour in the mother city in this distinctive, albeit noisy manner since early 1806. The cannons were cast in Britain in 1794 and still bear the royal crest of King George the third. The firing of the cannon was originally to give ships in the bay a means of re-setting their clocks accurately.

Chief Petty Officer Dudley Malgas of the South African Navy posing alongside the noon gun cannon in Cape Town. CPO Malgas has been in charge of firing the canon since 1995. The daily noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest living tradition and the two cannons used are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They have marked the midday hour in the mother city in this distinctive, albeit noisy manner since early 1806. The cannons were cast in Britain in 1794 and still bear the royal crest of King George the third. The firing of the cannon was originally to give ships in the bay a means of re-setting their clocks accurately.

The noon gun firing in Cape Town. The daily noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest living tradition and the two cannons used are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They have marked the midday hour in the mother city in this distinctive, albeit noisy manner since early 1806. The cannons were cast in Britain in 1794 and still bear the royal crest of King George the third. The firing of the cannon was originally to give ships in the bay a means of re-setting their clocks accurately.

Dom Mariae Aufnahme in den Himmel und St. Kassian zu Brixen cathedral, old town, Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy, Europe

Baroque "Basilica Minor", Church of Visitation of Virgin Mary, on Svaty Kopecek, Holy Hill, near Olomouc, Czech Republic, Europe

Baroque "Basilica Minor", Church of Visitation of Virgin Mary, on Svaty Kopecek, Holy Hill, near Olomouc, Czech Republic, Europe

Baroque "Basilica Minor", Church of Visitation of Virgin Mary, on Svaty Kopecek, Holy Hill, near Olomouc, Czech Republic, Europe

Large clock and two gold wedding rings as a sign outside a jewellery store, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

badminton racket shuttlecock top view

Dom Mariae Aufnahme in den Himmel und St. Kassian zu Brixen cathedral, old town, Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy, Europe

Dom Mariae Aufnahme in den Himmel und St. Kassian zu Brixen cathedral, old town, Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy, Europe

Dom Mariae Aufnahme in den Himmel und St. Kassian zu Brixen cathedral, old town, Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy, Europe

Church in the sanctuary Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe

Cathedral of Brixen, Duomo di Santa Maria Assunta e San Cassiano, Piazza Duomo, Brixen, Bressanone, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy, Europe

Former abbey church of St. Michael, Basilica minor, Salzkammergut region, Upper Austria, Austria, Europe

Brixen Cathedral, Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy, Europe

Towers of Welfenmuenster, formerly Steingaden Abbey Church, Welfenstrasse 2, Steingaden, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Towers of the Church of Santo Antonio in Lagos, Algarve, Portugal, Europe

Brixen Cathedral, Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy, Europe

Church of Espalion, Aveyron, France, Europe