St. Michael's Fortress

St. Michael's Fortress inside the Croatian town of Sibenik is a medieval fortress situated on a steep hill above the old ancient middle of the town. Its strategically favorable and dominant function made it the valuable a part of Sibenik fortification machine. The region was extra or less constantly occupied because the Iron Age, as is witnessed via severa archaeological findings from the era. The metropolis of Sibenik was first referred to on Christmas Day of 1066 in a charter signed through King Petar Kresimir IV and demonstrated by way of his courtiers. It is widely taken into consideration that the signing passed off at St. Michael's Fortress.

St. Michael's Fortress changed into named after the oldest church in Sibenik, St. Michael's church, which turned into placed inner its walls. One idea shows that the church changed into constructed at some point of the first wave of Christianization of Croatia, from the late 8th to the early ninth century. The first source that mentions St. Michael's church is a twelfth/thirteenth century hagiographic textual content Vita beati Ioannis episcopi et confessoris Traguriensis. During the Venetian rule, an unflattering call castel vecchio become generally used.