- The Millennium Tower is a renowned symbol of Zemun. It is one of the four towers built by the Hungarian authorities as a part of celebration of 1000 years of Hungarian settlement in the Pannonian plain.
- The 36-meter-high tower was built on the then southernmost point of the Kingdom, on the Gardoš hill in Zemun, in 1896.
- The tower was built on the foundations of the former Zemun Fortress, which was an important defensive point that for centuries stood above the right bank of the River Danube.
- Gardoš Hill is an elevated loess plateau and a prehistoric archeological site of Starčevo and Vinča cultures. In ancient times, the Celtic and Roman settlement in Zemun was known as Taurunum.
- The Millennium Tower is also known as the Gardoš Tower and the Sibinjanin Janko Tower (The Tower of John Hunyadi).
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