Millennium Tower or Gardos Tower, Belgrade

Millennium Tower or Gardos Tower, Belgrade (Serbia)

Gardo Tower also known as Millennium Tower is a memorial tower located in Zemun city of Belgrade in Serbia. It was built and officially opened on 20 August 1896 to celebrate a thousand years of Hungarian settlement in the Pannonian plain. The Millennium project included seven monuments in total all over the Hungarian part of Austro-Hungary with Gardo Tower being the southernmost. They are all different and not all of them are towers. As part of Old 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