Ramska bb, Ram
Ramska bb, Ram
Welcome to the most picturesque and powerful fortress on the Danube!
This historical place bears witness to the many peoples and cultures that have lived in this area since Roman times, and the Ram Fortress was built in 1483 by order of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II – the grandfather of Suleiman the Magnificent. This is also the place of the most beautiful sunsets in Europe as chosen by National Geographic.
Welcome to Ram Fortress, one of the most powerful medieval fortresses on the most beautiful European rivers! The picturesque medieval Ram Fortress was built in 1483 by order of Sultan Bayezid II – the grandfather of Suleiman the Magnificent, and many peoples visited this area throughout history and left traces...
At the very entrance to the Fortress is the highest central tower, Tower I or the Keep. The commander of the Fortress once lived in this tower It had three floors and two platforms at the top, while all other towers had a ground floor, two floors, and a platform....
The rampart between the Keep and Tower No 2 is where our visitors like to take photos. You can see the entire Fortress and the magnificent Danube River from this place!
From Tower 3, you can best see the ramparts surrounding the Fortress. Around the Fortress was an outer rampart built at the same time as the Fortress. The outer rampart is 1.5m away from the walls of the towers and about 8m from the walls of the ramparts. This way,...
This tower has a view of the wooden river rafts connecting the municipality of Veliko Gradiste with Vojvodina Saint Sava crossed the Danube here on his way to the Romanian town of Bazias, where he built a Serbian monastery dedicated to the Transfiguration of Jesus in the 13th century During...
Below Tower 5 of the Ram Fortress, there is a Roman tablet carved into the rock, with an inscription in Latin: To Jupiter, the greatest and the mightiest of all gods, the standard-bearer of the Legio VII Claudia; Gaius Licinius Rufinus dedicates the table The tablet is located under the...
When you go down to the central plateau, the ground part of the Fortress, you can see the Fortress before the reconstruction in the photos in front of the circular tower. The Fortress was reconstructed between 2017-2019 by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency TIKA
Near the Fortress, there is a caravanserai from the 15th century. A caravanserai next to which a hammam was once located shows us that the Fortress was important not only in times of war but in times of peace when it protected merchants, who had a place to spend the...
Downstream from the medieval Fortress and the village of Ram, at a distance of 1 kilometer, are the foundations of a once mighty fortification. The shape and size of the massive castrum around which the settlement was formed can be recognized by the configuration of the terrain. Chroniclers mention Lederata...
In its course near Ram, the Danube makes a big bend, bypassing the high cliffs and turning sharply to the north. On the rocky and sandy plateau, Celts in the 4th century BC built an oppidum, the center of which was a temple – a sanctuary with an altar From...
