Przemyśl Fortress

2012-01-16 08:35:00 Przemyśl Fortress: Location: The Przemyśl Fortress is situated at the outer edge of the Carpathians arc, in the place where the San leaves the mountainous areas and flows out onto the Podkarpacie flatlands (the vast Sandomierz Basin). Currently, the Przemyśl Fortress is situated within the following territories: Poland (podkarpackie voivodeship, the major part of the Przemyśl Fortress) and the Ukraine (a small fragment covering six auxiliary forts of the group). The Fortress area extends
2012-01-16 13:12:00 Worth seeing: FORTS The core of the Fortress The core of the Fortress (noyon), situated within the borders of the town, is composed of a complex of artillery forts, joined by an embankment, with entrenchments, batteries and other fortified objects. There are still the remains of gates in some of the entrance roads to the town (particular attention should be given to the remains of the Lower San Gate with its watchtower). The main forts of the internal ring are as follows: fort XVI
2012-03-14 13:33:00 Museum: The Przemyśl Fortress Exhibition at the National Museum of the Przemyśl Land The subject of the permanent exhibition "The Przemyśl Fortress – 1854-1915” is the history of the construction of the Przemyśl fortifications from the 1850s until the year 1914, as well as the history of the battles for the Przemyśl Fortress from 26 September 1914 until the end of the third siege on 6 June 1915. The construction of the fortress in the years 1854-1914.
2012-03-14 13:50:00 The Good Soldier Švejk in Przemyśl: The Good Soldier Švejk in Przemyśl The fourth, last volume of the novel by J. Hašek "The Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk", entitled "The famous thrashing continued" is almost entirely devoted to the adventures of the hero in Przemyśl after the recapture of the fortress in July 1915. Let’s follow the traces of the good soldier. Švejk was seized by a gendarmerie patrol as a fugitive Russian prisoner of war due
2012-02-08 13:02:00 Przemyśl Fortress in the winter