@graemestevens -- very few tourists, especially since I was there at night. IN fact, it was easy to take a photo of the whole clock with nobody in front of it if you waited a minute. But the resulting photo seemed like a postcard so I tried to figure out how to make it seem more interesting.
I love that city. It was my first travel by myself, with friends and sweetheart, with no parents’ funding ... before the end of the communist era. Definitely romantic!