Capping the Avas Hill to the south of Miskolc’s city centre is an eye-catching piece of Soviet-era design.

This space age structure went up in 1966 and was conceived by the Hungarian architects Miklós Hófer and György Vörös.

It took the place of an observation tower built in 1934 by Bálint Szeghalmy, also responsible for Miskolc’s Wooden Church.