| This is the English tower Fort Wellington that was built in 1813 on the place of the Venetian fortification of the open type from 1616. It is located on the hill above Korcula Old Town, about 20 minutes walk along the steps from Plokata - the main square.
This building is currently deserted and is dangerous to climb the staircase inside the tower, as they are old and unreliable. Forteca tower is also devastated by horrible mobile phone network cables and transmitting masts that are placed there by Croatian mobile phone company.
We hope these masts will be soon removed and tower will get new staircase, as this is a very nice Korcula panorama spot and it is shame we can not use it more effectively.
Photos : Views from Forteca , Old Postcard - views from Forteca,
New Mast on Forteca: Forteca is the English tower Fort Wellington, built in 1813 at the top of the hill above Korcula Old Town. Due to it’s historic value, it was unreasonable to expected that a mobile phone mast and aerials can be erected on top of the tower.However, some people had a different idea and a mast and aerials have been there for years. |