Charles, Prince of Wales, stands at the right in a dark overcoat at the railing of the fortress terrace, while a man in a wide-lapelled suit points out over the parapet and a third man in dark glasses follows his arm. The clock tower rises behind them and a long iron railing runs away down the slope. The tight framing and the unposed moment are those of press coverage.
Charles made a single official visit to Yugoslavia, from 23 to 27 October 1978, which dates the photograph. The bare trees and the heavy overcoats fit that week.
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
- October 1978
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 700 × 410 px
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