Petrovaradin fortress😍
One of the most beautiful places in Serbia! I recommend you to visit it at sunset 😍🙏 Just look at the pictures!
Petrovaradin Fortress - the symbol of Novi Sad, also known as Gibraltar on the Danube, was built between 1692 and 1780 by Marquis Sebastian Vauban. This was during the reign of the Austrian emperors Leopold I, Joseph I, Charles VI, Maria Theresa and Joseph II.
The fortress has a dominant geographical and strategic position in the region, and therefore it has been plundered by many nations over the centuries. The fortress has traces of an early Stone Age settlement, and later traces of the Celts, Romans, Huns, Avars, Byzantines, Hungarians, Serbs and Turks, who were expelled in 1687 by the Austrians, and five years later they began to build the fortress.
In Latin, "petra" means wall, "var" in Hungarian means city, while in Turkish "din" means faith. Combining these words, we got the name Petrovaradin, which in the literal interpretation of our people means that this is a city on a rock, strong as faith.
From 1768 to 1776, an underground fortress was built - underground passages, galleries and corridors over four floors. The length of these underground corridors is slightly more than 16 kilometers. This unique system was designed to install minefields, as well as to store uniforms and weapons, and has many loopholes, about 10,000.
Today, the fortress is one of the best achievements of European military architecture of the 18th century. It is very well preserved and is considered the second largest fortress in Europe. Having played an extremely successful defensive role in the past, Petrovaradin Fortress is today a cultural and historical monument of great importance and a type of tourist attraction.
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