Point of interest
Gardoš Tower, Zemun
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Location
31 Sinđelićeva
Beograd
Tips from locals
The Gardoš Tower is also known as the Millennium Tower as it was built in 1896 to celebrate 1,000 years of Hungarian settlement on the Pannonian Plain.
Tower Gardoš is one of the four Millennium Towers built by the Hungarian authorities on all four sides of the world, in the farthest cities of the kingdom, as part of the celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the settlement of Hungarians in Pannonia. The tower, 36 meters high, was built at the southernmost point of the kingdom, in Zemun, in the city of Belgrade, in 1896, at the elevation of Gardoš, on the foundations of the ancient Zemun fortress Taurunum from the 9th century, which stood as an important defensive point for centuries above the right bank of the Danube. The Zemun Millennium Tower, from the period of the Hungarian kingdom, except in Hungary, is the only such preserved monument that has remained in the territory of other states.
Tower Gardoš is one of the four Millennium Towers built by the Hungarian authorities on all four sides of the world, in the farthest cities of the kingdom, as part of the celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the settlement of Hungarians in Pannonia. The tower, 36 meters high, was built at th…
Once at the very border of the West, old Zemun still evokes the spirit of the Austro - Hungarian Empire. Gardos Tower, with its panoramic views of the Danube, is landmark of Zemun.
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