Comarno Fortress

Komarno Fortress, located in the Slovak city of the same name, is part of a fortification system on the banks of the Danube, on the territory of Slovakia and Hungary. The first fortress was built in the XIII century by the Hungarian king Bela IV. In the XV century, the Hungarian king Matthias ordered the construction of a fortress on the present Slovak side of the Danube, which is now called the Old Fortress.

It was built by architects from Italy. In 1673 a new fortress was built. The construction of the fortress in the form of a quadrangle with three protrusions in the form of a peak of gray stone and sand was completed in the middle of the XIX century. The area of the citadel on the side of Slovakia, consisting of eleven bastions, could accommodate 200,000 soldiers.

Now in the Slovak citadel there is a museum "Roman Lapidarium", the collection of which consists of Roman sculptural monuments of the I-IV centuries AD, among which you can see altars, tombstones, sarcophagi, various architectural elements.