Despot Stefan Tower

Despot Stefan Tower
Kalemegdan, Belgrade Serbia
Despot Stefan Tower in Upper City of Kalemegdan Fortress
Coordinates	44°49′31″N 20°27′4″E / 44.82528°N 20.45111°E / 44.82528; 20.45111Coordinates: 44°49′31″N 20°27′4″E / 44.82528°N 20.45111°E / 44.82528; 20.45111
Site information
Open to the public	Yes
Site history
Built	1405
Built by	Stefan Lazarević
In use	Serbian Despotate
Materials	Stone

The Dizdar Tower or Despot Stefan Tower is a structure in Belgrade, Serbia, built ca. 1405, a couple of years after the city became the capital of Serbian Despotate under Despot Stefan Lazarević.

Today, the tower is the seat of the Astronomical Society Ruđer Bošković and houses its Popular Observatory. The Observatory has two instruments: refractor Zeiss (110/2200mm) and reflector Tall 200 K (200/2200mm), bot of which are used mainly for observations at night. Four panoramic telescopes are also mounted on the tower, which can be used to observe the panorama of Belgrade.^[1]

References

↑ http://adrb.org/index.php?lang=en&page=observatory

Belgrade

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Despot Stefan Tower

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