The Nebojsa Tower is one of the most famous towers in the Belgrade Fortress. It is located in the Lower town at the entrance to the former Danube harbor. During her Turkish rule, the Greek revolutionary Riga from Fera was executed.
The tower was named after the negation of the verb to be afraid, which would mean that the tower is not afraid of any enemy and that it is unconquerable.
Such naming of towers can also be found in other Slovene nations, for example, in Slovak fortresses.
Often it is incorrectly called "Nebojsa's Tower" due to insufficient knowledge of history and easier memory of the name (because of the nature of the language "Nebojsa's Tower" sounds more correct, although it is completely different).
According to the legend, the tower of Nebojsa was the Donjon tower of the Belgrade Fortress in the time of the despot Stefan, which probably looked like Despot's tower in the Monastery of Manasija. The legend goes on to say that the tower is unconquerable, when the Turks, after heavy fighting, occupied almost the entire Belgrade fortress, waved in the air and flew to the Lower town out of their reach, so they never took it anywhere. Since that time, it stands in its present place to testify to its incomprehensibility and disobedience.
The Belgrade Clock Tower is the tower of the upper city of Belgrade Fortress. The tower rises above the gates, and the gate has just got its name after this tower. It belongs to the most important and most preserved signs of the upper city.
The construction began in 1740 during the Austro-Hungarian administration led by the Venetian builder Andrea Kornara, and completed in 1789, then already under Turkish rule but with the same builder.
Today's clock (trained in 2003) was created at the beginning of the 20th century by the bell-ringer Pantelić from Zemun. But although the original Pantelic mechanism has been restored and trained, a microcomputer-controlled system with electric motors, sensors and electromagnets is typed for a quarter of an hour while the old mechanism is kept.
