Fort Brioni Minor

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Fort Brioni Minor is the largest defensive fortress in the defense system of the port of Pula. The fortress located on Mali Brijun, built from 1895 to 1900, is part of the second defensive belt that surrounded Pula. An impressive fortification with an elongated ground plan, basic dimensions 175 x 90 m, was built into the hollowed rock, and its main task was to control the northern approach to Pula through the Fažana Channel. Artillery weapons consisted of long-range and short-range defensive weapons. In 1910, a torpedo battery was built near the fort, on the shore - a station for launching torpedoes. From its inception until 1990, the fort was occupied by various armies: Austro-Hungarian, Italian, German and Yugoslav. Despite this, its original condition remained well preserved.

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