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An impressive building, buried in the rock of the western suburbs or the so-called Danube slopes and formed during the great Austrian reconstruction of the Belgrade Fortress. The construction lasted only two years, from 1718 to 1720, with the aim of making a safe shelter for gunpowder as soon as possible, a place protected from enemy artillery. An extremely strong protective wall was built around this building in the middle of the 18th century. Today, the Great Gunpowder Warehouse has been partially renovated and arranged. In the first hall, there is an exhibition of Roman stone monuments, stelae, sarcophagi and altars, which were collected and brought from numerous sites in Belgrade, Kosmaj and Kostolac over the years. Concerts and theatre performances are occasionally held in the Great Gunpowder Warehouse or the Barutana.