Klang & Prasat Suor Prat

Along the east side of Central sq are two groups of buildings, called Kleangs. The North Kleang and the South Kleang may at one time have been palaces. The North Kleang has been dated from the period of Jayavarman V.

Along Central sq in front of the two Kleang are 12 laterite towers - 10 in a row and two more at right angles facing the Ave of Victory - known as the Prasat Suor Prat, Archaeologists believe the towers, which from an honour guard along Central sq, were constructed by Jayavarman VII. It is likely that each one originally contained
either a linga or a statue. It is said artists performed for the king on tightropes or rope bridges stung between these towers.

According to Chinese emissary Chou Ta-Kuan, the towers of Prasat Suor Prat were also used for public trails of sorts - during a dispite the two parties would be made to sit inside two towers, one party eventually succumbing to illness and proven guilty.