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The House of Flowers (Serbian: Кућа цвећа, romanized: Kuća cveća; Croatian: Kuća cvijeća; Macedonian: Куќа на цвеќето; Slovene: Hiša cvetja) is the resting place of Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980) and Jovanka Broz (1924–2013), the President and the First Lady of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
It chronicles the period of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Socialist Yugoslavia as well as the life of Josip Broz Tito. Tito's grave is located in one of the museum buildings (the House of Flowers). With 120,000 visitors annually, it is the most visited museum in Serbia. [1]
The House of Flowers, together with the Museum of Yugoslavia, has since become a tourist destination and landmark of Belgrade visited by millions of people. [ citation needed ] The pomp and scale of the funeral had been widely documented and the event was a source of pride for the country for years to come.
Batons sent by various organizations and groups to Tito at the House of Flowers (within the Museum of Yugoslavia), Dedinje, Belgrade. Relay of Youth in Slovenia (1960) The Relay of Youth (Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian: Štafeta mladosti (Cyrillic: Штафета младости), Macedonian: Штафета на младоста, Albanian: Stafeta e Rinise) was a symbolic relay race held in ...
1 Turgenjev Street; Agrarian Bank Building; Archives of Yugoslavia; Beli Dvor (White Palace); Belgrade Meteorological Station; Belgrade Planetarium; Captain Miša Mansion
On Yugoslavia's Youth Day, a day traditionally known as Tito's birthday, popular gathering places for Yugo-nostalgics include Kumrovec, the small village in Croatian Zagorje where Tito was born, and his resting place at the House of Flowers. These sites attract several thousand visitors each year. [12] [13]
Every year on 25 May, several thousand people from the former Yugoslavia gather in Tito's hometown of Kumrovec [253] and his resting place, House of Flowers, [254] to pay tribute to his memory [255] and celebrate the former country's Youth Day, which in the Yugoslav era was one of the biggest annual celebrations and was marked by the Relay of ...
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia — a former communist/socialist state in Yugoslavia, with the official names of: ... House of Flowers (mausoleum) L.