The Cursed Clock Tower of Tripoli

In the central square of Tripoli stands an Ottoman clock tower built in 1669, erected directly over a mass grave of Greek civilians slaughtered during the 1715 Ottoman reconquest of the Peloponnese. A specific curse attaches to the tower: any government body that operates from the surrounding square during a period of social crisis will fall within three years.

The pattern has held across the 1893 financial panic, the 1922 Asia Minor catastrophe, and the 2010 austerity crisis. The clock on the tower stopped permanently in 1944 and has never been successfully repaired, despite multiple attempts by professional clockmakers.