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About Skull Tower
Skull Tower is a museum (History museums) in Niš, in the Medijana district. The address is Bulevar Dr Zorana Đinđića, 18108 Niš. Up-to-date information is available on its own website, and you can reach it by phone at +38118222228. Just around the corner: Kutak Ei (restaurant, 214 m) and Suva Magla -Dim (sight, 239 m).
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- Museum › History museums
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- Address
- Bulevar Dr Zorana Đinđića
18108 Niš, Serbia - District
- Medijana
- Phone
- +38118222228
- Website
- www.visitnis.com
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- Coordinates
- 43.31217° N · 21.92386° E
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- ID 6cd78ebf-6ac…
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Skull Tower was built in the 19th century by the Turks from the skulls of the Serbs killed in the battle of Cegar, near Nis, in May 1809. It is rectangular, about high and was built from quicklime, sand and the skinned skulls, upon the order of Khurshid Pasha who had first sent the skulls filled with cotton to the Sultan in Istanbul. Each side of the tower has 14 rows with 17 openings where the skulls were embedded. There were 952 skulls, but today only 58 have remained. The rest were pulled out to be buried or were lost in time. In 1892 a chapel was built around the tower, according to the design of the Belgrade architect Dimitrie T. Leko. The skulls are situated inside the small chapel consisting of four glass walls. Europe came to know about this horrible monument of Serbian martyrdom from the work "Voyage to the East" by the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine (1790 - 1869).
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