Niš Fortress

Lipidarium

The walls of Niš Fortress enclose the following buildings - Exhibition halls:

  • Art Pavilion - The adapted Arsenal building dating from 1857;
  • 77 Exhibition Hall - The reconstructed and adapted Bali-bey mosque, dating from 1521-1523;
  • Open-air Theatre (19), built in 1959, where numerous cultural events take place (the Yugoslav Choral Festival and Yugoslav Film Festival of Actors' Achievements, etc.);

other important buildings include:

  • The City Archives building  erected in 1890, former Serbian Army Cartographic Department;
  • Pasha's Konak (Residence), reconstructed and used by the city-owned firm 'Mediana';
  • The Monument to Prince Milan Obrenovic, who liberated Nis in 1878;
  • Charnel House Memorial, erected in 1931, on the spot where insurrectionists of the Toplica Uprising (1917) were executed;
  • Lapidarium - a permanent open-air exhibition of antique and epigraph stone monuments, sculptures, tombstones and parts of architectural plastic ornaments, opened in 1979;
  • Prison building, adapted and used by the Research Centre 'Naisus'.


 

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