The tower
White, three storeys.
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Gradačac Castle is a castle and fortified complex in the town of Gradačac in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, on a hill above the town centre on the slopes of the Majevica range, about 43 km northwest of Tuzla in a straight line. With the adjacent clock tower and other historic buildings it forms the «Old fort of Gradačac with Gradaščević tower», a designated national monument. The castle consists of a fort with curtain walls up to about 18 metres high enclosing the top of the hill, and a prominent three-storey tower rising about 22 metres, built between 1765 and 1821. The fortifications took their present form in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when an earlier stronghold became the seat of the Gradačac captaincy. The tower is closely tied to the local captain Husein-kapetan Gradaščević. Stone and red-brick walls rise above a grassy slope, topped by the white tower with small windows, wooden balconies and a tiled roof, and from the hilltop the view opens over the town and the surrounding plains. Visitors climb to the courtyard inside the walls to see the tower and stroll the nearby town centre and clock tower. It makes a stop on the road through northern Bosnia.
White, three storeys.
Stone and brick.
Over the town.
Gradačac, Bosnia and Herzegovina
About an hour.
The clock tower.