Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Niš, Serbia

The Stambol Gate in the Niš Fortress or the Constantinople Gate is one of the four entrances (exits) on the fortified earthen rampart built by the Ottomans in the period from 1719 to 1723. It got its name from the direction of the road that led east, to Stambol.

Wikipedia: Стамбол капија у Нишкој тврђави (SR)

The monument to Prince Milan Obrenović and the liberators of Niš in 1878 is located in the Niš fortress. It was built in 1902 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the liberation of Niš and the first anniversary of the death of Prince-King Milan Obrenović

Wikipedia: Споменик кнезу Милану Обреновићу и ослободиоцима Ниша 1878. године (SR)

The hammam in the Niš Fortress is located next to the Stambol Gate. It was built in the 15th century and is the oldest preserved Turkish building in Niš. It was recorded for the first time in 1498 in the Niš census defter. At that time, two hammams were recorded in Niš: "Ali Bey, son of Michal Bey, and Mehmed Bey, son of Minet Bey."

Wikipedia: Хамам у Нишкој тврђави (SR)

Salon 77 in Niš is one of the three exhibition spaces (galleries) of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts in Niš. This gallery space is located in the Bali-beg mosque from 1523, in the central part of the Niš fortress. The space with a square base, with 16 windows and a dome on the ceilings, 12 m high, which used to be the Turkish Mosque, with its architectural values and internal vault height of almost 10 m, is very suitable not only for exhibition activities of visual artists, but also for concerts and other acoustic performances.

Wikipedia: Салон 77 у Нишу (SR)

Byzantijska Street in the Niš Fortress is one of the archaeological sites and a unique spatial ambient unit on the central plateau of the ancient imperial Nais in the immediate vicinity of the Bali-beg Mosque. Namely, it is a public, representative part of the ancient city, with all the features that characterize the late antique – Tetrachian architecture. Archaeological excavations at this site, in the Niš Fortress, which were carried out from 1962 to 1963, for the first time discovered the material remains of this ancient street. Archaeological findings resulting from these excavations indicate that the street on the central plateau may have been built between the 5th and 6th centuries, and that it can be associated with the reconstruction of the city carried out in the post-Constantine time.

Wikipedia: Византијска улица у Нишкој тврђави (SR)

Niš Fortress is a fortress in the city of Niš, Serbia. It is a complex and important cultural and historical monument. It rises on the right bank of the Nišava River, overlooking the area inhabited for longer than two millennia. It was protected by law in May 1948 as it was declared a cultural site of great significance. The current condition of the fortress lists it as one of the best preserved fortifications of this kind in Serbia as well as on the Balkan Peninsula.

Wikipedia: Niš Fortress (EN)

The building under the vaults and the basilica in the Niš Fortress is one of the archaeological sites and a unique spatial ambient unit on the central plateau of the ancient imperial Nais. Namely, it is a public, representative part of the ancient city, with all the features that characterize the late antique – Tetrachian architecture. Archaeological excavations at this site, in the Niš Fortress, which were carried out from 1982 to 1985, for the first time discovered the material remains of this ancient street and its buildings. Archaeological findings resulting from these excavations indicate that the complex of buildings on the central plateau may have been built in the first decades of the 4th century, and that it can be linked to the reconstruction of the city carried out in Constantine's time.

Wikipedia: Грађевина под сводовима и базилика у Нишкој тврђави (SR)

The City Garden in the Niš Fortress is a special ambient and park unit designed as an exhibition, sales and educational space on the southeastern plateau of one of the largest and most representative buildings from the period of the Ottoman Empire and one of the largest fortresses in the Balkans, today a cultural and historical monument of great importance.

Wikipedia: Градска башта у Нишкој тврђави (SR)

The Lapidarium in the Niš Fortress was opened in 1980. It consists of 41 monuments from the ancient period of Niš from the 1st to the 6th century.

Wikipedia: Лапидаријум у Нишкој тврђави (SR)

Gunpowder magazines in the Niš Fortress are a ground-floor rectangular building built in the period from 1720 to 1723, by the Ottomans. Originally, they were intended for the accommodation of gunpowder, ammunition, protection of soldiers and defense of buildings in the event of an enemy attack, in the Middle Ages, but in the 21st century, after the realization of the revitalization program of the Niš Fortress, one by one they were turned into a space intended for numerous cultural events.

Wikipedia: Барутане у Нишкој тврђави (SR)

The Crveni Krst concentration camp, also known as the Niš concentration camp, located in Crveni Krst, Niš, was operated by the German Gestapo and used to hold captured Serbs, Jews and Romanis during the Second World War. Established in mid-1941, it was used to detain as many as 35,000 people during the war and was liberated by the Yugoslav Partisans in 1944. More than 10,000 people are thought to have been killed at the camp. After the war, a memorial to the victims of the camp was erected on Mount Bubanj, where many inmates were shot. A memorial museum was opened on the former campgrounds in 1967 and in 1979 the campgrounds were declared a Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance and came under the protection of the Socialist Republic of Serbia.

Wikipedia: Crveni Krst concentration camp (EN), Website