Varazdin feudal fortress, from ancient times called Old Town, the most important historic building Varazdin. She is the center of the noble estate, equity and legal separation of the free royal town of Varazdin. The present fort was built of 14 to 19 century. Its oldest part of the central tower. Bench and canopy in its ground finest examples of Gothic secular plastic on the north Croatian. For the wars with the Turks in the 16th century, rebuilt in the Renaissance Wasserburg, fortress - castle surrounded by high earthen embankments with bastions, surrounded by a double strip of water. Alterations in the second half of the 16th century Italian architects performed in the vicinity of Coma headed by the imperial architect fort at the Slavonian border Domenico delLalliom. Over the past was having many important noble family, the Counts of Celje, John Ungnada, George Brandenburg and Croatian Ban Thomas Erdödyja and his successors. In 1925. become the property of the city of Varazdin.
In honor of the millennium anniversary of the Croatian kingdom was opened in the old city 1925th The Varazdin Municipal Museum. In its premises are situated the oldest collection, Cultural Department, whose numerous collections in our time and set out in stylish rooms. The most valuable collection of guild items, furniture, historic portraits, weapons, paintings, clocks, porcelain and glass, which along with many other objects of everyday life Varazdin nobility and wealthy citizens and visitors today can see the 40-odd museum rooms. They are especially valuable collections with objects from the legacy of two celebrated Varazdin, politician and writer John Kukuljevića Sakcinskog and linguist Vatroslava Jagića.
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