Smederevo

Smederevo, a fortress on the Danube downstream from Belgrade, was built between 1428 and 1430 during the reign of Despot Djuradj Brankovic, the last of medieval Serbia's rulers. The fortress encircled by crenelated walls and towers, was for a long time the last bastion against the Turkish assault. The main tower is well preserved and an inscription on it mentions Despot Djuradj and the date of its construction.

Smederevo fortress suffered severe damage to its towers and walls during World War II, when a big ammunition depot exploded within its walls in 1941, and from bombing in 1944.

The church of St. George in the center of the city, designed by a Czech architect Jan Nevola, was built in 1854. It is one of the biggest churches from the period of Romanticism in Serbia.
Its design blends Serbian medieval heritage and baroque influences in a superb manner.
The interior of the church and the iconostasis was painted by a Russian artist Andrea Vasilevich Bicenko.

The church of the Dormition of the Virgin, on the cemetery, was built in the first half of 15th century. It has decorative stone and brick masonry and sculpturally decorated portal and windows. Its interior is fresco painted.