Clock Tower Just between the Nikole Djurkovic and Bellavista squares, the passage leads through Porta di Borgo (town gate) under Sahat Kula (Clock Tower). This watch tower and gate into the old town of Herceg Novi was built in 1667, under the Ottoman rule. It was the main gate to the town with a wooden drawbridge over a moat, where a stream flew at that time. The bridge could be lifted under threats and attacks. The gate contains an inscription in Arabic: "This stronghold was erected in 1667 by Mustafa Aga, attendant in the Sultan's Mosque, by order of Sultan Mahmud". The old mechanical watch in the tower was replaced in 1995 with an electric one, received as an act of friendship from the town of Zemun, Serbia, a fellow-town of Herceg Novi. In the arcade is a niche with a sculpture of the Black Madonna, made of burnt wood and dedicated to the memory of Tvrtko I Kotromanovic, the town's founder.

Clock Tower

Clock Tower