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Website. www .ni .rs. Niš ( / ˈniːʃ /; Serbian Cyrillic: Ниш, Serbian pronunciation: [nîːʃ] ⓘ; names in other languages ), less often spelled in English as Nish, is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District. It is located in the southern part of Serbia.
- Niš Fortress
- Skull Tower
- Mediana
- Archaeological Hall
- Tinkers’ Alley
- Crveni Krst Concentration Camp
- Bubanj Memorial Site
- Latin Church in Gornji Matejevac
- Officers House
- Holy Trinity Cathedral
Right on the Nišava River is the daunting Ottoman fort that was completed in 1723. This encloses an ancient citadel and has been settled since a Roman camp was founded here more than 2,000 years ago. The new fortress was a massive undertaking: It covers 22 hectares and comprises more than two kilometres of walls. You’ll arrive via the ceremonious S...
A grisly reminder of the bloodshed of the First Serbian Uprising is a tower literally made of rows of human skulls in quicklime. The story goes that during the Battle of Čegar, the Serbian trenches were being overrun by attacking Ottomans. So the commander Stevan Sinđelić personally detonated the powder magazine, obliterating his position on Čegar ...
Niš, or Naissus, was taken by the Romans in 75 BC and became a camp on the Via Militaris, a road across southeastern Europe from what is now Belgrade to Constantinople. As it happens, Emperor Constantine was born in Naissus in 272 AD, and you can visit his birthplace at the Mediana archaeological site. Southeast of the city, this villa the most com...
Like Skull Tower and Mediana, the Archaeological Hall belongs to the National Museum of Niš. Many of the artefacts unearthed in this ancient city are on show here. These go back long before the Romans arrived, to when Niš was a Bronze Age settlement in the 6th century BC. From this time there are Celtic swords, ceramics, items of jewellery, bronze ...
On Kopitareva Street, opposite the glass facade of the Kalča shopping mall you can dive into the city’s last surviving craftsman’s quarter. This street is from the time of Ottoman rule and was plotted in the first half of the 18th century. The main livelihood was tinsmithing, and it’s a trade that continued here right up to the 1990s. Since then th...
After the Second World War ended this concentration camp was preserved as a poignant memorial to the Jewish, Serbian and Romani people imprisoned here. The Crveni Krst (Red Cross) camp has been left alone since the war and feels eerily like it has only just been abandoned. You’ll be given an introduction to the camp at the entrance and there are in...
During the Second World War those mass executions took place on Mount Bubanj just to the west of the city. It is estimated that 10,000 prisoners from the Crveni Krst camp were killed on this hilltop. Right after the war the hill was turned into a memorial park. And before long a sculpture was erected in the clearing at the crest. It was the work of...
With a scenic location on Metoh Hill above the village of Gornji Matejevac is a Byzantine church that built in the 1000s. It’s one of only a few monuments in the region to predate the Nemanjić Dynasty, which ruled Serbia and much of southeastern Europe in the middle ages. The church has a condensed cross floor plan, and bears the classic Byzantine ...
Facing the fortress ramparts across the Nišava is a stately building from 1890 with an interesting past. This first opened as a restaurant but was soon purchased by the army as an officers mess, and during the First World War it became the temporary seat of the Serbian parliament. Numerous resolutions were passed here that would have a lasting impa...
The city’s cathedral is a product of the Treaty of Paris in 1856, in which the Ottomans pledged to recognise the rights of Christians in their empire. Construction took place over the next few decades and the church was consecrated after the liberation of Niš in 1878. The design is an engaging mishmash of Serbian-Byzantine, Neo-Renaissance and Baro...
- Orthodox Cathedral. Second only in size to Belgrade's St Sava Temple, this huge Orthodox cathedral, completely restored after being destroyed in a fire in 2001, was…
- Red Cross Concentration Camp. One of the best-preserved Nazi camps in Europe, the deceptively named Red Cross (named after the adjacent train station) held about 30,000 Serbs, Roma,…
- Mediana. Mediana is what remains of Constantine the Great's luxurious 4th-century Roman palace. The recently unveiled 1000 sq metres of gorgeous mosaics are the…
- Ćele Kula. With Serbian defeat imminent at the 1809 Battle of Čegar, the Duke of Resava kamikazed towards the Turkish defences, firing at their gunpowder stores,…
Modern day Niš is an important center in Serbia. With the population of more than 250.000 people, it is the third largest city in the country. Beside numerous historical sites, you shouldn’t miss walking down the city’s main street nor tasting the Serbian cuisine and having lunch in one of its well-known “ kafanas ” (Serbian ...
28. Bodies of Water. By 836nikhilk. If you are in nis, you must visit the riverside in the evening as many young people gather around or hangout with their... 7. Vinski Podrum Malca. 23. Wineries & Vineyards. You, wine lovers will be able to experience in a more than 110 years old wine cellar a kind of wine travel.
Niš is an important crossroads between Central Europe and the Middle East, and assumes the central position in the Balkan peninsula, surrounded by a number of mountains, two rivers, two beautiful gorges, and numerous sites of historical importance from various periods in Niš Valley. Some approximate distances: Niš - Belgrade 240 km, Niš ...
The Serbian army liberated Niš in 1877, and the town was ceded to them by the Treaty of Berlin (1878). In World War I Niš was for a period the capital of Serbia. Heavy bomb damage from World War II and consequent postwar construction erased much of the town’s Turko-Byzantine style. Historical buildings include a 5th-century Byzantine crypt.
