With its nine towers and its
trenches on a rocky hill on the Danube bank, the
fortress of Golubac has represented one of the most
important monuments in Serbia. Constructed at the
beginning of XIV century by Hungarians, the castle
of Golubac had passed a short time in the hands of
Serbs to be taken by Turks in 1391. The Austrians
had conquered it many a time, but the Ottoman had
been controlling this position on the Danube till
1867 when it had been taken by the Serbian State.
