Breastplate and sword at Skanderbeg's tomb in Lezhë

MAY 10 2014

Breastplate and sword at Skanderbeg's tomb in Lezhë

Replicas of armour and sword hang above the burial place of Gjergj Kastrioti in the ruined church of Saint Nicholas at Lezhë. He died there of fever in January 1468, and Ottoman soldiers later broke open the grave for relics.

Source: Wikimedia Commons

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