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Project is partly financed by the EU within the INTERREG IIIA program Slovenia-Hungary-Croatia 2004-2006 |
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GRADINA - KLANA |
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| The “Gradina” Archaeological site is situated at the top of a rocky hill right above the centre of the settlement. The strategic surveillance position was first used in the late antiquity in the 4th century when a system of forts watchtowers and walls known as the “Liburnian Limes”. The watchtower was renovated in the 13th century when the Counts of Devinski (their name originates from the Duino Castle near Trieste) established their feudal reign at the communication area between the towns Reka and Trieste. The next lords, the Walsee family, enlarged the fortress at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century and, in its immediate vicinity, built the Holy Trinity Chapel from which a fragment of an inscription in Granolithic alphabet that is now built in façade of the parish church originates. After the Walisee family died out, the Klana estate was taken over by the Habsburg dynasty who rented it out for management to chaplains. Because of the constant threat of Turkish invasions the medieval town of Klana was expanded in the end of the 15th and in the 16th century. Klana turned into a walled fort where the inhabitants from the town’s outskirts took refuge when the threat was near. The fort underwent the last renovation in the beginning of the 17th century when, during the war between Austria and Venice, the ramparts were fortified and new towers built at its edges. After the Peace treaty of Madrid the importance of the fort began to decline. Abandoned, it was almost completely lost in the catastrophic earthquake in the 19th century following which the castle’s quality stone was used to renew the settlement at the foot of the hill. |
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