Thread by @jonworth

All this mapping Eiffel Towers leads you to discover strange towers in strange places...

And Serbia 🇷🇸 has an Eiffel Tower strip, south east of Belgrade and north of Kragujevac

There are towers in:
Lozovik
Velika Plana
Markovac

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Why are there Eiffel Towers in this area of Serbia you might ask?

Because lots of people from there went to work in France, or had a connection to France, as this story of the Markovac tower builder explains 👇
blic.rs/vesti/srbija/a…

"I worked in Paris in paris in the 1970s as a car mechanic. It wasn't so bad, but I didn't even like it too much. I returned home and made the Eiffel Tower as a memory" says Milutin Damjanović who built it

Dragisa and Stanka Milanović's tower - in Lozovik - has similar motivations. The couple spent their working lives in France and then returned to Serbia 👇
novosti.rs/vesti/srbija.7…

Details of the Velika Plana tower are a bit more scarce, but we know that one has flowers growing on it! 👇
espreso.co.rs/vesti/drustvo/…

But it's one thing to know there are Eiffel Towers...

The next step is to map them!

Searching Twitter I found a few locals who seemed to know: twitter.com/search?q=(from… and @SuncicaKaric in particular

So now we know the addresses of the three towers

Drugi Šumadijski Odred
Markovac
🗺 google.de/maps/place/Dru…
😢 But NO STREET VIEW!

Ulica Lole Ribara broj 12
Lozovik
🗺
google.com/maps/place/Loz…
😢 Also NO STREET VIEW!

But then 🎉

147 97
Velika Plana
🗺
google.com/maps/place/147…

IT WORKS!

Eiffel Tower, complete with flowers, in all it's glory in a small town in Serbia!

Thank you @SuncicaKaric for all the work!

This tower, and my other recent discoveries, will go in the @Geoguessr map shortly 👇
geoguessr.com/maps/60451069a…

And will be listed on the blog post 👇
jonworth.eu/the-weird-and-…

/ends