Fort Minceta Dubrovnik Croatia
by Jasna Dragun
Title
Fort Minceta Dubrovnik Croatia
Artist
Jasna Dragun
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Dubrovnik (Latin Ragusium) is a city in the south of Croatian and one of the most historic Croatian tourist destinations.
In 1979, the city of Dubrovnik joined the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
Minceta is the northernmost and most impressive fortresses in Dubrovnik city walls; The most prominent point of the defense system of Dubrovnik to the mainland. With St. Blaise, a kind of symbol of the city of Dubrovnik.
Fort Minceta is named after an aristocratic Dubrovnik family Mencetic which offered land for its construction. It is a large circular tower, which is based on a broad and solid bulwark; its height and impressive volume dominates the northwestern part of the city and high walls. Minčeta has thrown battlement, supported profiled rock consoles. The parapet has a clear aesthetic, not fortification function, which means that the tower itself during the Republic of Dubrovnik was almost indestructible stronghold.
With Minčete, as the highest point of Dubrovnik, offers a magnificent view of the city and its location between the steep slopes of Mount Srđ, on the one hand and the open sea, on the other hand.
The tower was built in two phases. In its original form it was a square, was built in 1319, and as a builder is registered Nićifor Ranjina.
After the fall of Constantinople (1453) it was decided that the existing tower restate curvaceous. The decision was made in 1455, but the building, due to the plague, started only in 1461, was designed by one of the most prominent builders in Europe - Micchelozza di Bartolomeo from Florence. Michelozzo around existing square towers built widely rounded finding customized new way of warfare that is linked with the newly built system of low-raked bulwark. The walls of the new fortifications were six meters thick and full and had a full range of protected openings for guns.
The imminent fall of Bosnia by the Turkish government in 1463 has further accelerated the works. After Micchelozzova departure from Dubrovnik, building Minčete takes over and continues Juraj, which is the whole idea of the appearance of the tower adapted and raised to a higher level, giving her such a magnificent and monumental form, while its current expanded battlement later upgrade. Minčeta tower was completed in 1464 and is a symbol of invincibility Dubrovnik.
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