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Avala is a mountainin the south-eastern corner of the city, overlooking Belgrade and it is
providing a great panoramic view. When you travel to Belgrade we recommend if the
time allows, a day trip to Avala, which entered a circle of protected green areas of
Belgrade and it is a traditional picnic resort for its residents. The entire area of the
mountain belongs to the Belgrade City area and has good traffic connections, so if you
start at the center of the city, you will need about 45 minutes to get there by car. There
are also many memorials on the site that you should visit on your Belgrade Tour.

The most magnificent monument that will catch your attention is the Monument to the

Unknown Hero, dedicated to the unknown Serbian soldier from World War I. It was
sculptured by Ivan Mestrović in the form ofwith 8 caryatids and it was completed in
1938.

Almost a hundred years have passed since the unknown hero was killed, a soldier who
became a synonym for all the victims of Serbia in the World War I. After the terrible
European conflicts in the second decade of the twentieth century, which killed more
than ten million people, many European capitals have introduced monuments to
unknown heroes, who were a symbol of all casualties during military destruction.

Our hero was killed by Austrian howitzer missiles in 1915, at the top of Avala, where he
was originally buried. Several years after the war, only the old wooden cross marked his
grave, and the invaders left writing on it, in the German language “Unknown Serbian
soldier rests here”.