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The new TV Tower on Avala Mountain opened April 21, 2010 The TV tower on Avala Mountain is not "just" a TV tower, nor is it just a "tall structure", as some of you may at first think. It was constructed from 1961 to 1965 and at the time was the pride of Yugoslav socialist engineering. It was the only tower in the world to have had an equilateral triangle as its cross section, and one of very few towers not perched directly into the ground, but standing on its legs.The legs formed a tripod, making it one of the...

Monument of the Unknown Hero / Mt. Avala, Serbia CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER II LAYS WREATH AT THE MONUMENT OF THE UNKNOWN HERO ON AVALA MOUNTAIN IN SERBIA Belgrade, 15 September 2009 – His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander II laid a wreath at the Monument of the Unknown Hero on Avala Mountain near Belgrade, for the September 15th anniversary of the breach of the Thessaloniki (Salonika) Front in 1918. A traditional ceremony with military honours was organized by the Association of Descendants of Serbian Warriors 1912 – 1920, and besides HRH Crown Prince Alexander II, wreaths were also laid by:...