Čair fountain

One of the most beautiful and best preserved drinking fountains in Niš which has been relocated a number of times. For the first time, it was moved from today’s King Milan Square to Čair Park in 1935 so that the monument to the liberators of Niš could be put up. It remained in the park for 70 years, up to 1997, when it was returned to the central city square.

The fountain was built in 1903 and was an architectonic monument in the central area of the city in the period preceding the First World War. It is made of granite and has a square-shaped basis from whose sides water springs out (from lions’ mouths). The inscription on the fountain says that the designer was Joseph Rinner, while the stonecutter was Vincenzo Caliterna.