Based on the recommendations of the expert commission of ICOMOS (International Council for Monuments and Monumental Areas), the removal of wild plants from the Forte mare fortress began. It is one of the first steps taken by the local administration so that the fortress could be on the UNESCO list of protected cultural assets. The work has been entrusted to members of the Mountaineering Society from Danilovgrad and the work will last five to six days.
We remind you that the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro, in cooperation with the Ministries of Culture of Italy and Croatia, is implementing the project of registering the Venetian defense fortresses between the 15th and 17th centuries on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The transnational nomination file was submitted in January 2016 and it includes three Montenegrin sites - the Forte Mare fortress and the Kotor and Ulcinj fortifications.
The arrival of the ICOMOS Commission was announced for September 4, in order to ascertain how far the works have come, says the director of JUK Herceg Fest Gordana Krcunović-Porobić
"In the first phase, we have to clean the fortress and the area around it and dismantle the screen (now there is a summer cinema on the fortress), and the second phase involves conservation work". 91.000 euros have been earmarked for the implementation of conservation measures at the Forte mare fortress.
The Forte Mare fortress is the best-preserved Herzegovinian fortress, the construction of which was started by Herceg Stjepan Vukčić Kosača in the first half of the 15th century.
During the Turkish administration of the city, the fortress acquired its present dimensions, and the Toni extended and renovated it on several occasions. It is assumed that the most extensive works were carried out after 1542 because from that time it is mentioned as a strong tower or as the tower of Abbas Pasha. After conquering Herceg Novi, the Venetians rebuilt the tower, adapting it to the defense and armament of the time. They named the tower Forte mare (Sea Fortress or Sea Fortress), which name has been retained to this day. With the arrival of Austria-Hungary on the territory of Boka, the fortress fits into the fortification system for the defense of the entrance to the Bay of Kotor.
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