In its three hundred years old history Petrovaradin fortress has grown from one of the biggest fortifications in Europe, built on the project of the French architect Vauban, and used for defence against the Ottoman empire, into a cultural meeting place and a tourist site in Novi Sad, one of the most beautiful cities in Yugoslavia and Central Europe.
With the destruction of the two bridges in Novi Sad, supposedly of strategic importance according to the NATO clames, the city has lost its identity and its spiritual connection with the rest of the world.
70 art studios which worked towards the inclusion of this remarkable building into the cultural wealth of Europe under the protection of UNESCO have now fell silent.
This Gibraltar on Danube with its cultural events and its aspirations to join Europe in its humanity, has by this barbaric act been cut off from Novi Sad, Serbian Athens, the city of which it is biological part.
The artists of Novi Sad could never dream that once they would be strategic target to the fliers of Apocalipse in the new millenium.