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Zemun fortress (Gardos)

Traditional cache on Gardos

di vanjakom     Serbia

N 44° 50.888' E 020° 24.596' (WGS84)

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Stato: disponibile
 Nascosta il: 28. ottobre 2018
 Pubblicata il: 28. ottobre 2018
 Ultimo aggiornamento: 18. dicembre 2019
 Listing: https://opencaching.de/OC14DC5
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Geocache is situated on a historic site in Zemun. There are two significant monuments from different periods on this site. You will find remains of medieval fortification and the tower called "Kula Sibinjanin Janka". Also, you can enjoy a beautiful view of the old town of Zemun, Danube river, the Great War Island and city of Belgrade in the background.

The medieval fortifications in Zemun have been preserved in the remnants of the so called gothic-type citadel. The square castle with a round tower on each side is preserved in parts of its outer walls and towers to the height of 2 meters. The castle is positioned SE-NW, NE-SW, and the length of its sides is 32.60, 30.15, 32 and 30.80 meters. The average diameter of the towers is 10 meters. The walls are built in broken stone, covered with brick in lime mortar.The fortress was first mentioned in the sources in the ninth century, and then frequently after the twelfth century. It is believed that the existing walls are from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In a Prandšteter miniature from 1608 the castle is represented as whole and roofed, while the panoramas of Zemun from the eighteenth century show it in ruins. The castle was devastated by the scattering of the building material, and it is necessary to restore and revive it. The ruins of the castle are the oldest remnants of old Zemun.

Kula Sibinjanin Janka (The tower of Janos Hunyadi) or the Millennium tower, also known as the Tower on the hill or simply the Gardoš tower. It was built and officially opened on August 20, 1896 to celebrate a thousand years of Hungarian settlement in the Pannonian plain. It was part of the massive construction effort which included buildings in Budapest as well as four millennium towers on four directions of the world. Being the southernmost city in then Hungary within the Austria-Hungary, the tower was built on the ruins of the medieval fortress on Gardoš hill which barely survived today (only angular towers and parts of the defending wall). The tower was built as a combination of various styles, mostly influenced by the Roman elements. Being a natural lookout, it was used by Zemun's firemen for decades. Today, the tower is better known after the Janos Hunyadi, who actually died in the old fortress four and a half centuries before the tower was built.

During sunny days there are a lot of mugglers, so be careful.

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drawing of Zemun and fortress

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trovata 06. maggio 2023, 15:28 Tungmar ha trovato la geocache

My last visit to Zemun fortress was almost four years ago. At that time, the construction work was ongoing and I could not find the cache. So I had to come back again. A good reason to visit this nice place again and enjoy the view. :-)

I took a bus – actually man I as I had no clue which one goes where, and I just took one which headed into the right direction and jumped to the next one when it made a wrong turn – to this town. Then I walked up here through the many narrow and winding alleys. Arrived at the top, I looked around, saw no one watching me and grabbed the box. Very easy.

After the signing, I went up to the tower of the fortress. The view was good, but I was a bit disappointed that there was nothing to see inside the fortress and one could not even go to the top.

vanjakom, thank you for the cache and the long time maintenance also on OpenCaching!

T1.5 D1.5 SSmall 15:28

disponibile 18. dicembre 2019 vanjakom fatto manutenzione sulla cache

The construction works on Gardos are finally over , and the cache is acitve again. The location is changed but it is close to the old one. Happy caching.

  New coordinates:  N 44° 50.888' E 020° 24.596', moved by 12 meters

temporaneamente non disponibile 28. maggio 2019 vanjakom ha disabilitato la cache

Because of the works on the reparation of the fortress wall, the cache is temporary unavailable. It will be back as soon as the works are done.

non trovata 26. maggio 2019, 08:44 Tungmar non ha trovato la geocache

It was a nice sight up here. Unfortunately there are construction works going on and the location is in it's mit's. Even on Sunday the workers where busy here so I didn't try to find it. It also looks like they rebuild the wall where the cache is probably hidden in. So it may be gone when they are done.

Thank you for bringing me to here any way!

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last modified on 30. maggio 2019

  Original coordinates:  N 44° 50.894' E 020° 24.600'