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. Today the fortress houses the City Museum of Novi Sad and hosts the EXIT festival each summer.

Sources: sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Петроварадинска_тврђава, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrovaradin_Fortress

Petrovaradin Fortress

Images

Barrels unloaded on the shore

Map of the fortress

A line engraving of the rock

Peterwardein Town and Fortress

Boats at the pier

Franz Josef Bridge walkway

Petrovaradin/Pétervárad/Peterwardein

Ship station

On the Danube

Soldier on the Danube bank

The Danube fleet

Fortress gate

The wooded slope from the water

Across still water to the fortress

The boulevard end at the bridge

Barges below the fortress

The bridge beyond the park trees

On the bridge