The most important part of the settlement, in the riverside area, is surrounded by the ramparts of the Lower Town. The settlement of this area began in ancient times, when a narrow strip of river bank was framed by ramparts. Houses were built in approximately the same area during the Middle Ages. However, the formation …
Ruzica Church, dedicated to the feast of the birth of the Mother of God, is today a revered sanctuary within the walls of the Belgrade Fortress. It was built in 1867 and was originally supposed to serve as a military temple. For that purpose, the Austrian gunpowder warehouse from the fourth decade of the 18th …
St. Petka Chapel, together with the Ruzica Church, is one of the most revered sanctuaries in Belgrade. It was built above a spring that has been considered miraculous since the Middle Ages, connecting with the cult of St. Petka. It is not known what the original chapel built on this site looked like, of which …
During the battles for the defence of Belgrade in 1915, a number of fallen soldiers were buried along the walls of the Belgrade Fortress. After the First World War, their remains were collected and placed in the ossuary next to the Jaksic Tower. The ossuary is marked with a cross that is made of cannon …
The protruding cannon tower of the Eastern suburbs of the Lower Town is named after the Jaksic brothers, medieval nobles known from folklore and heroic epic songs. It was built at the beginning of the second half of the 15th century, with 15 positions for cannons that defended the northern approach to the city. The …
Although it is known as an old Turkish bath, the hammam in the Lower Town was built only in the second half of the 19th century, at a time when the Turkish garrison had already left Belgrade. In addition to this one, there were two other hammams in the area of the Belgrade Fortress — …
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 …
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 …
Today it represents the largest and best preserved tower of the Belgrade Fortress. It used to be located on the river bank, near the entrance to the old medieval port, which stretched from the outside of the northeastern rampart. The same name — Nebojsa — was used in the Middle Ages for the main tower …
The bastion makes a part of the coastal rampart built upon the project of Andrea Cornaro at the end of the seventeenth century. There are records saying that sultan Mustafa II supervised the construction works of the bastion during his stay in Belgrade in 1696. Thus, the Turks called it “Sultan Mustafa’s Stronghold”. During the …