Rozhledna Děd
Observation tower · Czechia
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A squat 12-metre brick tower crowns the forested summit of Děd (492 m) above Beroun, its silhouette breaking the treeline on the climb up from the valley, though a look from the top rewards you with only a narrow gap in the woods toward Kladno and the Křivoklát forests, the rest of the view swallowed by trees that have grown up since it was built. Raised in just four months in 1893 from around 25,000 bricks, it was the very first observation tower built by the Klub českých turistů (Czech Tourists' Club), funded jointly with the local Beroun Beautification Society. The hill had long been a favourite gathering point for 19th-century Sokol outings and patriotic pilgrimages, and the tower's foundation stone was laid that May before it opened with ceremony on 17 September 1893. Modest as it is, a 2011 regional readers' poll ranked it the second most beautiful lookout tower in the whole Prague and Central Bohemia region, beaten only by Prague's Petřín Tower.
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From Wikipedia
Rozhledna Děd se nachází na kopci Děd u města Beroun ve výšce 492 metrů. Vrchol kopce a větší část hřebene leží v katastrálním území Beroun, západní úbočí spadá do Zahořan, části města Králova Dvora. Slavnostně byla otevřena 17. září 1893; byla to vůbec první rozhledna, kterou vybudoval Klub českých turistů.