SERBIA: DEVIL’S TOWN & SKULL FORTRESS

Posted July 27, 2009 by David McGuinness



We left Prolom Banja and drove South to Dvarjos Varos a.k.a. Devil’s town. This place is made up of bizarre steep red stone peaks. It was truly stunning and local legends about the place abound. They say that an old man who was at war for many years came back and unknowingly was to marry his sister. God watched from above and unwilling to let this unholy marriage proceed turned all who came to celebrate it into stone peaks.

The peaks look quite like Cappadoccia in Turkey but these ones are not unmoving and the peaks are destroyed and reformed on an ongoing basis. The top of one peak bore an uncanny resemblance to the devil’s face. Spooky!

 


From there we drove to Niš where we stopped for the night. The highlight of Niš was undoubtedly the skull tower, a tower erected after the Turks lost over 10,000 men due to the self-sacrifice of a Serbian leader and unwittingly about 3,000 of his men. Seeing they were to be overpowered he shot into their arms supply and took out all and sundry. In response the Turks built the skull tower made from 4 walls each containing eleven rows of seven skulls of Serbs killed, and the infamous leader’s skull on top. Many of the skulls are no longer there as Serbs took them to be buried but I think the message must have been pretty clear!

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