Daugavpils Fortress (Dünaburg, Dwinsk) is located on the banks of the Daugava River in south-east Latvia. It was built between 1810 and 1878 and is an ideal fortified town with an area [...]

The Suomenlinna sea fortress is located about 15 minutes by sea from Helsinki. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an outstanding example of European military architecture of its time. The fortress is a [...]

Büdingen tour guides train for the FORTE CULTURA certificate (Photo: Arnika Haury) On the initiative of the Büdingen Tourist Information Centre, led by Arnika Haury, around 20 tour guides met at the end of January [...]

Fort Prusy (Fort Prussia) is part of the Nysa Fortress in the Opole Voivodeship. The Nysa fortress was a key element of the Prussian defence system on the then border with Poland. Due to [...]

The Fortress Study Group CIO (FSG) was founded in the UK in 1975 and is a registered charity dedicated to the study and preservation of fortifications from the age of artillery [...]

ERASMUS+ project ‘Sustainable Fortifications as a Learning Centre for Seniors’ by the Fortress of Culture Šibenik (Croatia/Šibenik), together with Asociatia Mioritics (Romania/Constanța) and Viešoji įstaiga Kauno tvirtovės parkas (Lithuania/Kaunas).

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of FORTE CULTURA, 60 participants from 9 countries came together at the founding location Kostrzyn nad Odrą (PL) to celebrate the anniversary. The two-and-a-half-day congress programme consisted of two conference parts and exciting excursions to the fortress heritage in the German-Polish Oder-Warthe region.

Project FORTIC Conference & EFFORTS Annual Congress "Sustainable business models for fortifications" The EFFORTS Annual Congress 2024 took place as part of the FORTIC project (Interreg Italy - Croatia) at St John's Fortress in [...].

HERITAGE OF ROUTES, NETWORKS AND CONNECTIONS Workshop FORTIFICATION ARCHITECTURE FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE: VALORIZATION OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN FORTIFICATIONS THROUGH CULTURAL ROUTES AND TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS of the University of Pula, TU [...]

The unknown fortress - "Stelling van Amsterdam" (by Hans-Rudolf Neumann); From 28 September to 5 October 2024, a pilot and study tour took place with seven international experts from Germany, Switzerland, [...]

The Franzensfeste fortress has guarded the Brenner Pass on the Italian side since 1838. With its 65,000 square metres of building area, it is the largest historical complex in South Tyrol. This masterpiece of Austrian fortress architecture extends over [...]

Unfortunately, the current flood situation in Eastern Europe has also left its mark on the fortress monuments there. In Ostrava in the Czech Republic, the Oder has burst its banks to such an extent that [...]