Vidin Gate is located on the northeastern fortress front. This part of the fortification, placed in front of the main Lower Town rampart, was built during the great Turkish reconstruction of the Belgrade Fortress, between 1740 and 1760, on the site of the destroyed Austrian fortifications. The gate was named after the former road that led to Vidin, a small town in Bulgaria.

A gate of the same name once existed within the defensive line around the city of Belgrade and it was located in Cara Dusana Street, near today’s First Belgrade Gymnasium. The original Vidin Gate was destroyed after the murder of a Serbian boy at the Cukur fountain in 1862, which was one of the reasons for the fight against the Turks, from which Serbia would emerge as an independent state.

In the passage of the gate, there are four side rooms with fireplaces, which were intended to accommodate the guards. At the beginning of the 19th century, during the First Serbian Uprising, a wall with two rows of loopholes was added above the Vidin Gate, which partially changed its original appearance. In the sides of the gate were large defensive casemates, with positions for seven cannons in both sides.

In front of the gate, there used to be a moat filled with water that was crossed by a wooden bridge. Today, it is difficult to imagine what the complex of the gate and its surroundings once looked like, because the whole area is covered with embankments.