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Nehaj Fortress 01/10/2024

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Updated: Jan 29


Nehaj Fortress
South wing.

The Nehaj Fortress is one of the most characteristic defensive structures in Croatia, built on a hill in the town of Senj in 1558. The building material was stones from partially destroyed buildings of the town. It has a quadrangular shape (side length 23 m, height of the fortress 18 m), an inner courtyard and small reinforcing turrets on the corners. The walls narrow towards the top, where their thickness at the bottom is 3.30 m, and at the top it decreases to 2-2.5 m. There are more than 100 small gun ports and 11 large holes for cannons in the walls. The second seat of the faults in Croatia. The first is Klis Fortress near Split.

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