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This site (Виничко Кале) houses the ruins of an important Byzantine fortress of the ^5th-7th centuries. It is located on a hill, 450 m above sea level, and overlooks the town of Vinica from 70 m high. We can see the bases of 3 m thick walls, numerous buildings and a Christian basilica. The place was occupied before the Byzantines and again after them. But it is the Byzantines who left the most significant traces here, in particular the famous "Vinica icons" in terracotta, discovered in the necropolis of the fortress in 1978.