Gardoš Tower

Gardoš Tower
Кула на Гардошу, Милениумска Кула, Кула Сибињанин Јанка

Gardoš Tower before reconstruction
Location within Serbia
Alternative names Millennium Tower, Tower of Janos Hunyadi
General information
Location Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia
Town or city Belgrade
Country Serbia
Coordinates 44°50′54.0″N 20°24′35.1″E / 44.848333°N 20.409750°E / 44.848333; 20.409750
Completed 1896
Website
www.kulanagardosu.com

Gardoš Tower (Serbian: Кула на Гардошу) or Millennium Tower, (Serbian: Милениумска Кула) and also known as Kula Sibinjanin Janka (English: The Tower of Janos Hunyadi Serbian: Кула Сибињанин Јанка) is a memorial tower located in Belgrade, Serbia. It was built and officially opened on August 20, 1896 to celebrate a thousand years of Hungarian settlement in the Pannonian plain.

As part of Old Town core of Zemun, and also located in the middle of the Zemun Fortress, tower is protected both as Spatial Cultural-Historical Unit of Great Importance, and as a Protected Monument of Culture.[1][2]

History

It was part of the massive construction effort which included buildings in Budapest as well as four millennium towers on four directions of the world. Being the southernmost city in then Hungary within the Austria-Hungary, the tower was built on the ruins of the medieval fortress on Gardoš hill, Taurunum, which barely survived today (only angular towers and parts of the defending wall). The tower was built as a combination of various styles, mostly influenced by the Roman elements. Being a natural lookout, it was used by Zemun's firemen for decades. Today, the tower is better known after the Janos Hunyadi, who actually died in the old fortress four and a half centuries before the tower was built.[3]

See also

References

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  1. ↑ Monuments of Culture in Serbia: Старо Градско језгро (SANU) (Serbian) (English)
  2. ↑ Monuments of Culture in Serbia: Земунска тврђава (SANU) (Serbian) (English)
  3. ↑ http://www.kulanagardosu.com/sr/kula_gardos/istorijat History (Serbian)
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