Place where The City Keys were handed over to The Serbs, Kalemegdan

The memorial of the symbolic delivery of city keys was erected at the place when on April 6/19, 1867 the firman of Sultan Abdul Asis was read. By the edict the fortresses of Belgrade, Šabac, Smederevo and Kladovo were handed over to Prince Mihailo Obrenović and the Serbian people. According to historic sources, the place is situated on the right side of the main Kalemegdan avenue. This event marked the new stage in the development of the Princedom of Serbia that led to state independence. The monument was erected in 1967, on the occasion of the centennial of the historic event. It is a stone block on which sculptor Mihailo Paunović carved a relief with representations of the delivery of the keys, after the drawing by Adam Stefanović, a contemporary to the event. The relief shows the Ottoman pasha handing over the keys to the Fortress to Prince Mihailo, with the Clock tower in the background and the minaret of the mosque which then stood in the Upper Town of Kalemegdan.