University of Texas Tower

Description:

Standing over 300 feet tall, the University of Texas Tower offers a lovely view of the university campus and the surrounding city of Austin. The lovely Beaux-Arts style building topped by its majestic tower and carillon is considered the heart of the university and regularly sounds it's bells, filling the campus with song. Offering tours of the observation deck for the first time in nearly three decades, the tower is located north of downtown on the University of Texas campus.