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RE: Discovering Unseen Beauty In Historical Places | Kalemegdan Photography Adventure
For a little historical perspective, this was built almost 500 years ago, in one of the peaks of the Ottoman Empire (they have a couple of peaks), it was probably lost during the mongolian raids, where they were forced to strength their military to resist said raids and therefore neglet this type of buildings.
This was only discovered before WWI when the Ottoman empire fell (yeah the Ottoman Empire was a thing less than a hundred years ago) and it fell because the negotiations, the only military force that could match them was... wait for it... THE MONGOLS!
Nicely done on that gif! yeah I discovered quite a bit when I went searching for answers. It’s really interesting (and heartbreaking) how many times this location has switched hands and seeing how those in control at a certain time left their mark. The fountain has quite the story, I’m just glad I got to witness the place at least once.
That's the whole point of travelling from my humble perspective, to watch history eye to eye and ask it... WHY YOU SO WEIRD!?!