Golubac fortress is located at the entrance of The Iron Gates, at the top of a hill. It dates back from medieval times, although it is unknown who built it, why and when exactly. It is mentioned for t...

The Babini Vidini Kuli fortress, also known as Baba Vida Fortress is situated on an area of 9.5 decares on the bank of the river Danube, in the northern part of Vidin....

Belgrade Fortress, built as a defensive structure around 3rd century, is the oldest and the core section of the city. ...

Explore the history above the Danube in Ilok where is an good preserved medieval complex with fortress, castle,church,park and monuments.....

The Devín Castle is one of the oldest castles recorded in Slovakia. There is a reference to it in the Fuldic annals from 864. Its monumental ruins overlooking the confluence of the Danube and Morava ...

This citadel provides a fantastic panorama of the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, and of New Belgrade and Zemun. ...

The name of the settlement Zemun comes from the Serbian zemlja, meaning earth. ...

The cornerstone of this mighty fortress on the right bank of the Danube river, also known as the “Gibraltar on the Danube”, was laid on 18th of October 1692. Its construction lasted until 1780. No...

Situated at the heart of Ilok, the impressive Odescalchi Manor, also called the Odescalchi Castle, was built on the foundations of the late medieval castle of King Nikola Iločki, constructed in the g...

The fortress in the village near Ilok, called Athya and Voćin...

Known also as Babini Vidini Kulu, legend has it that this massive fortification and number one tourist attraction goes back to Vida, the eldest daughter of a Bulgarian boyar and landowner. ...

Kaleto (Turkish fortification, fortress) is a complex of defensive installations built by the Ottomans on land and along the Danube....

The remains of this fortress, 500m west of the ancient Roman Danube Bridge, were rediscovered in the 19th century....

The most impressive structure in the new archaeological park constructed in 2013 around the Iron Gates Region Museum of Drobeta is the pylon of the ancient Pons Traiani (Trajan’s Bridge), which once...

This castrum (100x200m), built of ashlar, was probably constructed around 100-101 AD, when Emperor Trajan prepared his Dacian campaign....

Ottomans under Suleiman the Magnificent moved in and built the Ottoman fortress of Fethi Islam...

The Golubac fortress was part of the medieval village of Golubac, built in the 14th century 4 km downstream...

Once important fortress...

Lying just opposite the Serbian Golubac Fortress, this fortress was built in 14th century...

Built in the 15th century to stop northward Ottoman expansion...

Very few sources speak of the once important Levent Tabia Military Fort...

Used as a naval station from the 1st to 7th century AD, you can still see the battle tower, the north fortress wall, the barracks and the stores...

Located near the village of Cherven, 35 km south of Ruse, the stronghold was of enormous importance during the Second Bulgarian Empire...

Situated 2 km from Murighiol, Halmyris was for over six centuries a Roman legionary base with two gates, 15 towers and a naval port...

The impressive landscape makes the fortress one of the tourist highlights of the Dobruja region....

When visiting the Buda Castle (Budai Vár), have a look also at the late medieval remains of the former castle at the Southern end of the complex (15th, 16th century)...

The fortress dominates the top of Gellért hill on Buda site of Danube...

The famous Gödöllö Royal Palace and Palace museum, once a favorite place of Austro-Hungarian Empress Elizabeth. ...

The remains of the first Roman military camp...

Noe-Romantique style Vajdahunyad Castle (vára) was erected for the millennium festivities, in 1896. The fairy tale complex of medieval reminiscence was built by Ignác Alpár and it never had any mil...

Baroque style Zichy Castle (kastély)...

The ownership of the castle, which controlled the important Danube crossing at Vác, changed 40 (!) times...

Aside heavy damages in World War II, Esztergom recovered again. Just in the 1930s, the old Palace of Árpád dynasty times was explored and reconstructed. Castle ...

The history of Štúrovo says, as settlement dates back to prehistoric times, that it was always an important place to cross the Danube. ...

At this strategically most important place of the Danube Bend, Romans built their Castrum Pons navatus on Sibrik Hill, in the 4th century AD, high above Danube...