Resumen de La strada di soccorso e gli interventi veneziani a Sebenico nel ‘400
Darka Bilić, Krasanka Majer Jurišić, Josip Pavić
The city of Šibenik was for the Republic of Venice one of the most strategically important cities on the eastern Adriatic coast. With the seizure of power in Šibenik at the beginning of the 15th century, Venice undertook a series of constructions with the aim of securing military primacy over the city. In Dalmatian cities that resisted the establishment of their rule, Venetians built a castle for its military crew by the sea shore, surrounded with a defensive moat towards the city. In Šibenik, on the contrary, they renewed the existing medieval castle on the hill above the city, connecting it with the coastline by an isolated, highly fortified passage. This passage is currently the only example of a ‘rescue road’ on the eastern Adriatic coast. This paper dates its construction and tries to reconstruct its original appearance with the help of a series of graphic sources. In the second half of the century interventions on the Šibenik fortifications were focused on defending the city from an external enemy. At the initiative and insistence of the local population, Venice strengthened and modernized the land stretch of the city walls and present contribution provides a reconstruction of the construction chronology of the city walls and their original appearance.
