Petrovaradin Fortress rises above the Danube, its clock tower visible at the left and the words STERIJINO POZORJE lettered across the escarpment below the ramparts, naming the theatre festival held in the city. Older buildings with tiled roofs stand at the foot of the hill, one with its own small spire, and a low fortified river wall runs along the bank.
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
STERIJINO POZORJE
Sterijino pozorje, painted in large capitals across the face of the fortress rampart above the river.
- Date
- 1965
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Hunyady József
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 5562 × 3528 px
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