Fattoria Belvedere Hotel

The Haymarket Clock Tower is a symbol in the historic center of Leicester. It is also a popular meeting point to meet for taking a walk around. This place was the old junction of five major streets in the city, but is now a pedestrian mall, surrounded by shops. There are some medieval buildings located between shops, built of wood, such as the Guildhall of the city, but most were destroyed in the eighteenth century to make way for new urban plan. The clock tower was built in 1868, in the middle of a roundabout around which traffic was organized. It was designed by Joseph Goddard, who built it with local Ketton stone.