This pentagonal tower is the Turnul Cizmarilor, the Shoemakers' Tower. And it is time for me to finally tell you about the Great Fire of sixteen hundred and seventy-six which I have already mentioned so many times. Here is what happened. In late April that year, a widow in the lower town left a fire burning unattended while she was doing the laundry. The fire spread to her house, jumped to the neighbours, and very quickly began moving up towards the citadel. Most of the houses at that point were made of timber and so the fire spread and raged on.By the time it was finally put out, much of the lower town was in ashes, and many of the guild towers were damaged or ruined. It is said that almost seventy percent of Sighișoara burned that day. Houses were rebuilt afterwards in brick and stone instead of wood, which is the reason the lower town today looks the way it does. Now, the Shoemakers' guild had stored gunpowder inside this tower. When the fire reached here, it ignited, and this tower was so badly damaged that it had to be completely rebuilt. The shoemakers, by the way, were one of the substantial guilds in Sighișoara. Footwear in the medieval and early modern town was a serious craft. Most people walked everywhere, on rough cobblestones and unpaved tracks, in all weather, year after year. A pair of well-made boots was an investment. A poorly made pair was a slow disaster for the feet. Master shoemakers passed their skills from father to son for generations, and the guild controlled who could open a shop, what materials they could use, and what they could charge. Today, this tower houses Radio Son Sighișoara, a local radio station, which is a wonderfully twenty-first-century use of a medieval defensive structure. Now, follow the map to the next guild tower, which was affected by the Great Fire.