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Eric Clarks Travel Videos - Sibenik Croatia - Fortress Barone. Mountain top Fortress from 1600s.
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Barone Fortress (lower right) in 2016
The Barone Fortress (also known as Šubićevac Fortress; Croatian: Tvrđava Barone or Tvrđava Šubićevac) in Šibenik, Croatia, is an early modern fortress constructed in 1646 on Vidakuša hill above the city.[1] Together with the remaining three city fortresses, it is a part of the Šibenik fortification system. It played a significant role in city's defense from the Ottomans during the Cretan War.[2] For a long time, it carried the name of its main defender, Baron Christoph von Degenfeld. At the start of the 20th century, along with the surrounding neighborhood, it was renamed Šubićevac, after the medieval patrician family Šubić.[3]
ince at least the mid-16th century, the city rectors and envoys had been stressing the need for the construction of fortification objects on the hills north of the city, because the city walls and St. Michael's Fortress had not been built to endure any prolonged artillery attack.[4] The pleas were constantly rejected by the Venetian senate due to lack of funds. In the spring of 1646, one year after the Cretan War broke out between the Venetians and the Ottomans, the Bosnian pasha began to amass a large army for the attack on Dalmatia.[5] At the same time, a German nobleman in Venetian service, Baron Christoph Martin von Degenfeld, took over the defense of the city, and a Genoese military engineer, Father Antonio Leni, arrived in Šibenik and made sketches for the necessary improvement of the city's defense.[6] When the people of Šibenik renewed their request for protection, the Venetians denied them the funds once again, but the citizens were not explicitly forbidden from building the fortification by themselves.[7] Upon hearing that, they took the matter into their own hands – the construction of both Barone Fortress and the adjacent St. John's Fortress began on 1 August 1646, and both fortresses were successfully built in only 58 days.[8] The first Ottoman siege in October 1646 was fended off after just seven days.[9] The fortresses were strengthened over the following winter and prepared for the next attack. On 17 August 1647, the Ottoman commander, Techieli-pasha, arrived in Šibenik with the largest invading army in Dalmatia since the Roman era – 25,000 soldiers and heavy artillery. After a ferocious one-month siege, the enemy withdrew with great losses in both manpower and equipment.[10] Turkish invaders were forced to retreat to the interior, towards Drniš, and never managed to conquer Šibenik.[11]
Originally, Barone Fortress looked somewhat different from what does today, as it was probably hurriedly built in the dry-stone technique.[12] Thirteen years later, in 1659, the Venetian provveditore Antonio Bernardo initialized the construction work that transformed the fortress into an object measuring up to the standards of contemporary military architecture.[13] Shaped as an irregular star, the fortress resisted enemy cannons thanks to the bastions reinforced with mounds. The northern part of the fortress (hornwork) has two demi-bastions connected by a curtain wall. That was the position of the defense artillery. The southern part was used for barracks and magazines. After the Ottoman threat had passed, the fortress was maintained poorly, and the original objects have decayed or been torn down with time. In the early 20th century, the City of Šibenik purchased and then renamed the fortress and its surrounding area.
Barone Fortress was revitalized through an EU-funded project worth €1.38 million, and re-opened in January 2016.[14] Like the renovated St. Michael's Fortress in 2014, Barone Fortress also won the national Cultural Attraction of the Year Award in 2016.[15] It now offers its visitors a digital tour through Šibenik's past, via an augmented reality platform and other multimedia features.[16]
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Izvor rijeke Kupe, Risnjak (Hrvatska)
Izvor rijeke Kupe, Risnjak (Hrvatska)
Seosko gospodarstvo Banovi dvori, Dubrava kod Tisnog
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Croatia: HZ Class 2062 (JZ green livery) shunts at Unesic, Sibenik-Knin County, Split arrival
Croatia: HZ Class 2062 (JZ green livery) shunts at Unesic, Sibenik-Knin County, Split arrival, locomotive number is 2062 036, recorded 9th September 2011.
Unešić is a municipality in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia. There are 2,160 inhabitants, with 99.58% declaring themselves Croats.
Šibenik-Knin County (Croatian: Šibensko-kninska županija) is a county in Croatia, located in north-central Dalmatia. Its center is Šibenik; other notable towns are Knin, Drniš and Skradin.
The county covers 3000 km² and has over 110 000 inhabitants. It also includes 242 islands and national parks Krka and Kornati.
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The HŽ Series 2062 is a class of diesel-electric locomotives belonging to Croatian rail operator Hrvatske željeznice (HŽ). They are examples of the EMD G26 locomotive series.
Prior to the breakup of Yugoslavia, when in use with JŽ these locos were classified as JŽ 664-0. Of the original 64 JŽ locomotives, 56 found their way to HŽ, with the remainder in use with ŽS.
HŽ have modernised 20 class 2062s, reclassifying them as 2062-1s. The work was carried out by Gredelj & Turner.
Croatian Railways (Croatian: Hrvatske željeznice, HŽ) is the national railway company of Croatia. It was formed after the dissolution of Yugoslavia and Yugoslav Railways.
Croatia is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Croatia is 78.
The Croatian railway system consists of 2,974 km of rails (of which 248 km is double track). 1,228 km is electrified - 41.3%. (End of 2004).
The railways are in urgent need of modernization. Following the break-up of Former Yugoslavia, there has been minimal investment in railway infrastructure right across the country. Many important routes are still not electrified, are single track, have high grades and meandering sections - ultimately leading to slow speeds.
The network has been improved over the last ten years, with the effect of an increased maximum speed on the Zagreb-Novska-Vinkovci line. There are sections where the speed limit has been raised from 80 km/h to 120 km/h and even 160 km/h. Railway modernisation is set to be extended further with a national 'railway investment plan' (with funding totalling over 18 billion HRK through to 2012.
The current rail speed record in Croatia is 185 km/h. The record was set on the line between Novska and Nova Gradiška. The run was performed in order to demonstrate the possibilities offered by the JŽ 1 442 train class (now HŽ 1 142 train class). Despite being over 25 years old the 1 142 remains the fastest train in operation with Croatian railways.
The track used was built to withstand speeds of 200 km/h, which is the technical limit of class 1 142. However, for safety reasons, the maximum speed of the HŽ 1 142 in regular service is set to 160 km/h.
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