Rousse TV Tower
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The Rousse TV Tower is a 206-meter [1] high TV tower built of reinforced concrete at Rousse, Bulgaria. It was the tallest one on the Balkan peninsula until 2001[2].
The Rousse TV Tower was built on the Leventa hill, a.k.a. Sarabair, in 1986 and was launched on 7 May 1987 (under communist rule). Authors of the project were Stilyan Titkov, Evlogi Tsvetkov, Ivan Yantahtov and V. Vasilev. The newly-built tower started broadcasting both Bulgarian Television and Soviet Television, as well as the three stations of Bulgarian National Radio — Horizon, Hristo Botev, and Orpheus (Bulgarian: Хоризонт, Христо Ботев и Орфей). Higher frequencies were coming into use during the following years, and the process of shutting down old transmitters was completed on 15 Aug 2004.
The tower has an observation deck open for tourists at a height of 107 meters, which offers an excellent panoramic view of Rousse, the Danube river, the neighbouring city of Giurgiu, Romania, and as far as the Carpathian Mountains.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Predavatel com - TV tower Russe (Bulgarian)
- ^ In 2001, the Endem TV Tower was built in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey.
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[edit] External links
- Pictures and description in Bulgarian
- Comparison of the Rousse and Endem TV towers
- Comparison of TV towers in Bulgaria
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