Tvrda (Fort) in Osijek

From immemorial times, the Danube (the dust-free road) represented the border offered by nature somewhat difficult to cross.
The meanders that make up the current water border of Serbia from Croatia receive a major hydraulic inflow from Drava, another blue line that supports naval traffic, but not large ones.
It is precisely in this zone of merging the gentle waters of the Drave in the Danube that it is unsettled, it is the historical city of Osijec, a Neolithic preserve of various vestiges.
Rome installs its legion here, fixing with the colony the imperial borders now defended by the cohorts Alpinorum and Hispanorum - the name given to the settlement being Mursa. From the military fort it becomes a city, later a necropolis.
It is Hadrian's time, the one whose name I have found on the many historical objectives of the empire under different architectural forms - here being glorified the name for eternity by the name of the stone bridge.
When the Empire shows signs of fatigue, the Goths ravage the colony, it is the dark 4th century - and a little later, only at 441, the completion of the destruction operation is repeated to the Huns.
For its strategic position, much later, rises in the medieval period Baroque Fort - the exceptional natural location being completed with a fortification on the opposite bank where the offensive began, and behind the Water Gate a proud work, as large as it can not be. Affected by heavy squats is the …