Oradea Fortress

Oradea Fortress
The fortress was build,as the legend says,on an island between the branches of Crisul
Repede River,near Peta rivulet.
In the beginning the fortification was formed by a vallum,consolidated with a palisade
and wooden towers.
From the very beginning,Oradea Fortress had the role of a polarizing nucleus of the
settlements in the Oradea area,being a political,military,legal,administrative and religious centre.
The 15th century was the "Golden Age" of the fortress,thanks to some bishops who were also great scholars-Andrea Scolari,Ioan Vitez of Zredna,and Sigismund Thurzo-Oradea
fortress became a humanist and renaissance centre,the first in size in central-eastern Europe.An impressive library was created,witch had almost all the works of the European humanists.
Today inside is the Hight school of art and picture.

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