The world is admired by these fortresses!

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Ancient heritage in new attire.

Visit Šibenik – the city of fortresses

The beauty and the value of Croatian historical heritage, and cultural wealth of the Šibenik city has been long recognized by the world. But, what particularly arouse great interest of the public is the beauty and the size of Šibenik’s forts. St Nicholas fort is one of the four that dominate Šibenik (St. Nicholas’, St. Michael’s, St. John’s and Šubićevac). All fortresses are being used to promote cultural tourism of the entire Šibenik region.

The fort of St. Nicholas is situated on the entrance of St. Anton’s Channel, on the place where monastery of St. Nicholas used to be. The fort was built in the 16^th century, during the Venetian rule, fas a defence system from Turkish attacks from the sea.

St. Michael’s fort is a kind of centre of Šibenik, a place where the oldest evidence of civilisation on Šibenik’s area was found. For a long time the fort was under the military management, and has only recently been opened for public. Many locals call it St. Anna fort even today, after the graveyard at the foot of the walls.

At the moment the restoration, funded by EU funds and Šibenik City, is being finished, so according to the information given by the city authorities, it will come to life in the summer of 2014, as an open stage.

The project includes setting up the summer stage in the open and subterranean part of the fort where polyvalent hall and the adjacent rooms will be situated.

The fort of St. John in situated on the 115 metres high hill, above the old city core. It was built in star-like shape in 1646, as a project of Venetian military engineer Antonio Leni, for protection from the Turkish attacks from the hinterland. It is interesting that the fort was built in only a month and a half.

One Šibenik’s forts is also soon becoming an exceptional tourist attraction whose values were recognized even by the European Union, which finances the project of restoration of Barone (Šubićevac) with a million euros of non-refundable assets.

The project of includes restoration, revitalization and sustainable use of this cultural heritage monument.

In step with new needs of modern cultural tourism

The fort will, with its contents, be transformed into a kind of high technology museum that will use augmented reality technology (the technology of enlarged reality) for the presentation of its exhibition. Just imagine you can, using smart phones, tablets and/or AR glasses, watch and explore the contents of the rich Šibenik’s history, mainly form the Candia War (the defence from Turks). You will be able to see the panoramic view from the viewpoint of the 17^th century Šibenik with the help of special electro-optical gadgets. The young ones will be delighted with the playground for children, amphitheatre for small plays, concerts or film projections, and also new entrance and urban equipment (benches, lights, cans), whose production will we guided by the highest functional and aesthetic criteria.

Take a walk through the city of forts

Take a short break and spend some time walking along the Šibenik’s forts. Try to evoke the beauty of the sunny day, as well as the beauty of the upcoming storm on some of these proud walls where little man is confronted with the eternity of the stone and the passing of ones’ own time.

Rich history has written inconceivably beautiful relief on the face of this town through fortresses admired by tourists and travellers from all over the world. The proud and white-collar Mediterranean still exists in the city of fortresses, towers and stone walls, the inexpressibly beautiful city of the antiquities, white stone paths, palaces and sophisticated aristocratic architecture.