Avas TV Tower, Television tower on Avas hill, Miskolc, Hungary.
The Avas TV Tower is a 72-meter concrete structure on a hilltop in Miskolc featuring an observation deck. This deck provides views across the entire city and the surrounding mountains and valleys.
The first tower here was a temporary wooden structure built in 1906 for the procession carrying Ferenc II Rákóczi's ashes to Kassa. Bálint Szeghalmy designed the first permanent tower in 1934; it burned in 1943 and was destroyed in December 1956, which a local, unproven legend attributes to a Soviet tank. The current reinforced-concrete tower, designed by Miklós Hofer and György Vörös, was inaugurated on 20 August 1963.
The tower shares its hilltop location with a Gothic Protestant Church, creating a visual dialogue between modern construction and medieval heritage. Visitors encounter two distinct architectural eras side by side on the same elevated ground.
Visitors reach the observation deck via an internal staircase and enjoy views across the city, mountains, and valleys from there. The best time to visit is during clear weather when visibility extends far across the landscape.
The railing carries thirteen miniature sculptures by Gábor Országh, Tibor Csernok and Lóránt Papp, each a stylised Miskolc building, from the synagogue to the Diósgyőr castle, with its direction marked. They were made so blind visitors can picture the view. Small plates also give the names and distances of Miskolc's twelve twin towns.
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