Executioner's Bastion
The Executioner’s Bastion is a bastion situated at Stará baštová Street in the historic center of Košice, Slovakia.
Its name is derived from the fact that the bastion was situated near a medieval executioner’s house. It is semicircular building with eight cannon chambers erected around the year 1500. The bastion was converted in the years 1920-1930 to the needs of the East Slovak Museum.
Read more about Executioner's Bastion: Memorial House of Francis (Ferenc) II Rákóczi
Famous quotes containing the word bastion:
“The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session ... the release of the guilty anxiety of the oppressor class.”
—Shulamith Firestone (b. 1945)