The project of revitalization, conservation and reutilization of Nebojša Tower is the biggest and the most demanding project in the field of heritage preservation and protection in Serbia. Nebojša Tower, a monument of great cultural and historical significance, has lost its function and usage from the previous centuries. It has been empty and closed for …
Parts of the Sava Gate, destroyed in the bombing in 1944, were restored in 2009. The works were funded by the City of Belgrade with about 46 million dinars. Archaeological research in this area was conducted in 2008- it was restored, tender documentation was prepared and a tender was announced. Sava Gate used to be …
In the period of extensive works on reconstruction of the Belgrade Fortress, between 1717 and 1736, a new gate was built at the place of the Inner Stambol Gate. Based on the project of Nicolas Doxat de Morez, the gate was a part of the newly built Southeast front. The basis of the gate is …
Restoration of the pedestrian path at the Lower town was completed in 2008.
Small Gunpowder Magazine is from the era of the Austrian occupation – period between 1725 and 1737, when several parts of rare items of archaeological heritage of the big baroque reconstruction of the Belgrade Fortress were recorded. Research documentation began in the fall of 1995, followed by the conservation and restoration works as well as …
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The Southeast front of the Belgrade Fortress was built during the third reconstruction of the Fortress in the period between 1740 and 1791, when the Fortress passed under the Ottoman rule. Both newly constructed bastions, together with the curtain wall and the big ravelin, represented a simplified version of destroyed Austrian fortifications, mostly for its …
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Restoration and conservation works on counterscarp of the trench in front of the Bastion of the Southeast front were completed in mid-2008. The works included the restoration and conservation of the counterscarp in this area. While disassembling the counterscarps, it was found that they were in a very poor condition, and that they, on the …