A small awninged excursion steamer works the water below the fortress, and two aeroplanes have been retouched into the sky at the printing stage. The card is captioned in Cyrillic and Latin, Тврђава са мостом and Tvrdjava sa mostom, the fortress with the bridge.
About this place
A Habsburg star fortress on the right bank of the Danube, built between 1692 and 1780 on a site fortified since antiquity: the Romans held Cusum here, a medieval fortress followed, and Cistercian monks kept a monastery on the hill in the 13th century. Beneath its walls Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated a far larger Ottoman army on 5 August 1716. Nicknamed the Gibraltar on the Danube, the fortress conceals some 16 kilometres of underground counter-mine galleries dug in 1764-1776. On its clock tower the hands are reversed, the long hand showing the hours so that fishermen on the Danube could read the time from a distance. The fortress still stands over the river and houses the City Museum of Novi Sad.
On the card
Нови Сад, Тврђава са мостом. / Novi Sad, Tvrdjava sa mostom.
- Date
- 1930s
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 934 × 593 px
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