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Home BELGRADE TOURS Millennium Tower on the Danube

Millennium Tower on the Danube

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- Depending on the location of hotel, boarding the bus or go directly to Zemun at the Docks and/or a boat ride to Zemun.
- Visit to the Gardoš tower - one of four Millennium Towers of Austrian Empire. To mark the millennium of their presence in Pannonia, Hungarians raised a monumental tower in the 1896 in Budapest, and four more such were built in four cities at the corners of their Empire. Zemun as the southernmost city in the possession of the Hungarian Crown was one of the four cities.

 

 

 

 

 


Zemun millennium tower was constructed in the most prominent part of Gardoš hill over the ruins of medieval fortresses of which today remain only angular towers and parts of the defense wall. Hungarian architects have designed tower in an eclectic mixture of historical styles with emphasis on the Roman elements. Construction was finished on fifth August 1896, and the opening ceremony was held 15 days later. That morning celebration was held in all Zemun churches. Whole area around the tower today is a popular promenade known as the Zemun Gardoš. Millennium monument was named after the Hungarian hero and a great fighter against the Turks, Janos Hunyadi who died in the medieval fortress on Gardoš, but a full 440 years before building the Millennium tower. Tower has been long used by the Zemun firefighters as a lookout. Today Gardoš is part of Zemun, which is a whole for itself with its cultural and historical heritage. The architecture of houses on Gardoš is different from the rural to the rest of the Zemun due to their specific position, narrow streets with cobblestones and Gardoš tower. The tower offers one of the most beautiful views of Belgrade.

- Visiting the gallery and lookout with binoculars.

- Descent to the Danube through Gardoš Sinđelićeva cobbled street, near different restaurants and shops with hand products. The group can be followed by uniformed "Austrian" troops who give orders while the group “marches" down the Sinđelićeva Street.

- Visiting Nikolajevska church, the most famous church in Zemun.

- Walk the Danube quay and lunch in one of the tavern on the banks of the Danube. You should try fish menu with a perch and sturgeon, as in many countries of this fish is almost extinct.

- Return to the hotel.

- To see more pictures try www.kulanaGardošu.com


 

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