A man in a suit leans against iron railings on a terrace of the fortress with his hands in his pockets. Behind him runs the long arcaded range of the barracks with a flight of steps and lamp standards, and to the right the grass roofed casemates and the roofs of the lower town fall away toward hills on the horizon. Guy wires cut across the frame.
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.
- Date
- 1930-1949
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2000 × 1438 px
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