The fortress

The statute of Count Schulenburg, the Austrian mercenary who was the hero of the siege of 1716 overlooks the old fortress in Corfu, Greece. The Turks' attempt to take Corfu failed.

Corfu's "history is laden with battles and conquests. The legacy of these struggles is visible in the form of castles punctuating strategic locations across the island. Two of these castles enclose its capital, which is the only city in Greece to be surrounded in such a way. As a result, Corfu's capital has been officially declared a Kastropolis ("castle city") by the Greek government. Corfu was long controlled by Venice, which repulsed several Turkish sieges, before falling under British rule following the Napoleonic Wars. Corfu was eventually ceded by the British Empire along with the remaining islands of the United States of the Ionian Islands, and unification with modern Greece was concluded in 1864 under the Treaty of London."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corfu

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