• Tallest structure in Prague, inaugurated on February 18th, 1992.
• It carries also environmental quality monitoring and meteorological devices.
• Artist David Cerny added in 2001 "Miminka", local for Babies, proportionally small black figures of babies who seem to be crawling up the poles of the tower.
• Built on former Jewish Cemetery in Zizkov, also known as the First Jewish Cemetery in Olsany, which was dug out by the Communists in order to make way for the tower.
• Construction started under the Communist regime in 1985, however, it wasn't completed until after the revolution, in 1992.
• Replaced Petrin Transmitter as Prague's transmission tower, which had carried TV signals for the capital city since 1953.
• Considered to be a masterpiece of communist design modelled as a Soyuz space rocket three-pillared.
• The elevators velocity: 4 m/s.
• Total weight of the large part: 11,800 tons.
• During high winds, maximal sway at the top of the tower is 120 cm.
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