This town has a HUMAN SKULL TOWER 💀 | Fortress Walk (Niš, Serbia) 🇷🇸

Back to being solo - I finish my Serbia trip in the southern city of Niš. Here we take a look at the city centre, and the namesake River Nišava that runs through it. We'll explore the ancient fortress, now home to a famous jazz festival inside it's impressive walls.
Finally we'll discover an ottoman tower made from over 900 human skulls!? Don't miss this gruesome, but unique piece of history!

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Niš Fortress | Park | Jazz Festival
04:44 - Views | Nišava River | City Centre
06:27 - The Skull Tower: Ćele Kula
09:24 - Čair Stadium (FK Radnički)
09:49 - Park | Outro
SOCIAL/CONTACT:
https://www.instagram.com/WhereDafuq/
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benwardtravel@gmail.com

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EQUIPMENT:
DJI Osmo Action 4 (Adventure Combo)
DJI Osmo Pocket 2 (Creator Combo)
Zeadio Tripod
Samsung S21 Ultra

SOFTWARE:
Adobe Premiere Pro
DJI Mimo

DATE:
October 2023

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WIKIPEDIA:

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. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 183,164, while its administrative area (City of Niš) has a population of 260,237 inhabitants.
Several Roman emperors were born in Niš or used it as a residence: Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople, Constantius III, Constans, Vetranio, Julian, Valentinian I, Valens; and Justin I. Emperor Claudius Gothicus decisively defeated the Goths at the Battle of Naissus (present-day Niš). Later playing a prominent role in the history of the Byzantine Empire, the city's past would earn it the nickname Imperial City.
After about 400 years of Ottoman rule, the city was liberated in 1878 and became part of the Principality of Serbia, though not without great bloodshed—remnants of which can be found throughout the city. Today, Niš is one of the most important economic centers in Serbia, especially in the electronics, mechanical engineering, textile, and tobacco industries. Constantine the Great Airport is Niš's international airport. The city is also the seat of the University of Niš, the Eparchy of Niš and the Command of Serbian Army.

Skull Tower (Serbian Cyrillic: Ћеле кула, romanized: Ćele kula, pronounced [tɕel̩e kula]) is a stone structure embedded with human skulls located in Niš, Serbia. It was constructed by the Ottoman Empire following the Battle of Čegar of May 1809, during the First Serbian Uprising. During the battle, Serbian rebels under the command of Stevan Sinđelić were surrounded by the Ottomans on Čegar Hill, near Niš. Knowing that he and his fighters would be impaled if captured, Sinđelić detonated a powder magazine within the rebel entrenchment, killing himself, his subordinates and the encroaching Ottoman soldiers. The governor of the Rumelia Eyalet, Hurshid Pasha, ordered that a tower be made from the skulls of the fallen rebels. The tower is 4.5 metres (15 ft) high, and originally contained 952 skulls embedded on four sides in 14 rows.
In 1861, Midhat Pasha, the last Ottoman governor of Niš, ordered that Skull Tower be dismantled. Following the Ottomans' withdrawal from Niš in 1878, the structure was partially restored, roofed over with a baldachin and some of the skulls that had been removed from it were returned. Construction of a chapel surrounding the structure commenced in 1892 and was completed in 1894. The chapel was renovated in 1937. A bust of Sinđelić was added the following year. In 1948, Skull Tower and the chapel enclosing it were declared Cultural Monuments of Exceptional Importance and came under the protection of the Socialist Republic of Serbia. Further renovation of the chapel occurred again in 1989.
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