Die Blumen blühen auf der Kuppel eines Bartiziers aus Stein oder einem Eckturm über den Stadtmauern der Festung Fortaleza de Peniche oder Peniche, die Mitte der 1500s Jahre von König Johannes III. Gegründet wurde, um die Atlantikküste und den belebten Hafen von Peniche im Stadtteil Leiria im Zentrum Portugals zu bewachen. Im 20. Jahrhundert wurde die Festung zu einem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis für Gegner des autoritären Salazar-Regimes.
4912 x 7360 px | 41,6 x 62,3 cm | 16,4 x 24,5 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
3. Juni 2013
Ort:
Peniche, Leiria District, Centro Region, Portugal.
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Peniche, Leiria District, Portugal: wild flowers bloom around the domed cupola roof of this stone bartizan or corner tower one of the sentry or lookout points along the sloping waterfront ramparts of the Fortaleza de Peniche or Peniche Fortress, founded in the mid-1500s by King John III. The fortress guards the mouth of Peniche harbour and was built from 1557 as a coastal defence against seaborne attacks by the English and French and raids by Barbary pirates. The original structure, influenced by the coastal castles built by England’s King Henry VIII, was enlarged in 1645 into an irregular star-shaped artillery fort. New gun batteries were added in the early-1800s, but when the Congress of Vienna brought peace to Europe in 1815, the fort lost its military importance. The Fortaleza’s history includes a siege in 1589, while under Spanish control, by English admiral Sir Francis Drake, damage from the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake, fighting in the early-1800s Peninsula War and Portuguese Civil War, an 1837 gunpowder blast that destroyed the Governor’s House, and its use as a refuge for former Portuguese colonists. The fortress was also a political prison, holding German and Austrian nationals during World War I and communists and other opponents of the authoritarian Estado Novo (Second Republic) regime led by António de Oliveira Salazar from 1933 to 1974. Despite being held in high security, communist leader Álvaro Cunhal and other dissidents escaped by descending from the walls on ropes made from bed sheets. Portugal returned to democracy after a military coup in 1974. The fortress is now a municipal museum telling the town’s story and also, as the National Museum of Resistance and Freedom, celebrating the fight against fascism. Visitors to the two-hectare complex can see the former prison yards and isolation cells. D1288.B5367
