Petrovaradin Fortress from across the river, its clock tower and long barracks ranged along the ridge above a stone quay where the water stands high against the wall. Captioned twice at lower left, in Cyrillic and Latin script, 'Grad Petrovaradin'. A handwritten greeting in Hungarian crosses the sky, signed 'Karoly', closing with 'szivelyes udvozlet' (cordial greetings).
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
Град Петроварадин / Grad Petrovaradin
The town of Petrovaradin.
- Date
- by September 1927
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2281 × 1503 px
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