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About the Mysteries and Magic of the Petrovaradin Fortress
The Petrovaradin fortress has recently celebrated 316 years of existence.
Its construction was started in 1692, at exactly 11 o'clock by setting the foundation stone.
It grew systematically until the year 1780.
The Gibraltar on the Danube, as it is often called,
has not been completely explored until today.
Veljko Milkovic, a citizen of Novi Sad and a member of two academies
has been exploring the fortress for the last five decades
and he has published several books on it so far.
We are assured on its very premises, on the spot,
that this bastion still hides many secrets.
The fact that one of the constructors
was an Italian count Luigi Marsigli,
who is compared to Leonardo De Vinci,
speaks in favor of its mystery and magical attributes.
Most probably they didn't think purely in military terms,
so there are many magical marks on the Petrovaradin fortress.
This cross we see, the one on the foundation in form of seven balls,
which is built in the escarp of the bastion of Innocent,
is aligned with two other crosses;
and if we take a look at Sirius,
which is on the south in winter period,
the line goes exactly it coincides with the line towards the Pole Star constellation.
Therefore, there is this line which also has a certain magic meaning.
The main works were finished in 1780,
and its underground part was never finished.
Up until now we have uncovered 16 km of halls (corridors),
but Milkovic claims that the length is over 20 km.
Some facts simply don't concur here.
If we look at the literature, I don't know, for example,
there are 12 thousand of loophole's (gunsmith's shops)
and 16 km of the corridors.
So mathematically some things don't agree.
Then it was published that 6 thousand soldiers
could be jammed into the underground of the fortress
and there were 12 thousand of loop holes.
And the underground without the loop holes
is considerably longer than the tunnel with loop holes.
One of the curiosities is also the fact that
a French architect Sebastian Vauban,
although he was the author of construction plans,
never visited the Petrovaradin fortress.
It is a plain espionage, to put it that way.
The plans were brought in by espionage of Eugene of Savoy
and they were made according to the latest technologies of that time...
Have you known that one part of the fortress
is hidden by the muddy waters of the Danube?
This part of it is still completely unexplored,
and it is situated near the Oficirska plaža (Officers' beach).
Due to the high water level of underground water
the island fortress sunk.
And now it is deep down,
so that we have parts of the fortress which are inaccessible.
This building was declared to be under protection of the state in 1951,
and we still don't know when it will be put under the protection of UNESCO,
although the fortress deserved it a long time ago.