Ljutica Fortress is one of the best-preserved in its original appearance medieval fortresses in Bulgaria. It vies with the
fortresses near the villages of Mezek Hollywood Homicide movie download , Matochina and others, which are considered as the best-preserved medieval fortresses in all Bulgaria.The fortress was built on
Gradishteto, a Rhodopes peak overgrown with forest, situated six kilometers west of Ladja neighborhood of Ivailovgrad. Its walls, surrounding an area of 14 decares, are preserved to their original height of 6m and are 1.75m thick. They were built of processed stones soldered with white mortar. The defense line of the fortress was fortified with 12 towers, some of which are preserved almost to their original height of 9m. Most of them are rectangular but there are also semicircular, trapezoidal and octagonal towers. The towers were three stories high, topped with combat platforms and equipped with loopholes. The lower floors of the south towers were used as living rooms, while those of the north towers served as water reservoirs. Evidence for this can be found in the manner that climbing to the combat platform was organized in each tower. Getting to the platforms, in those used as living rooms, was done by climbing wooden staircases, while stone stairs, detached from the fortification walls, were used to get to the top of the ones used as water reservoirs.
The name of the fortress appeared for the first time in the bishop’s registers during the time of Emperor Luv VI (886–912). It was mentioned also during the reign of Constantine VII (Constantine Porphyrogenitus) in 940. Among the episcopal centers in eparchial Thrace subordinate to the Metropolitan Bishop in Philipopolis was also the Bishop Center – Ljutica. Probably during that time, the fortress near the settlement was built. The fortress was destroyed many times in the past. The present fortress was built most probably during the 12th and 13th Centuries during the reign of Tsar Kaloyan.
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Ljutica was also mentioned in the memoirs of Iowan Kantakuzin in relation with the civil riots within the borders of Byzantium Empire during the winter of 1342-1343. During that time, the fortress was under the reign of Kantakuzin’s enemy Alexii Apokvak. One of Kantakuzin’s contingents set out from Dimotika to seek provisions in the Rhodope Mountains. The winter was severe and the soldiers found themselves endangered from freezing and were forced to surrender to the Ljutica garrison. The governor of the fortress was secret ally of Kantakuzin. He
locked the soldiers in a house, warmed and fed them and after the third day voluntarily let them escape.
It is common knowledge that, during the Ottoman invasion, Ljutica was seized without a fight. That is one of the reasons that it was not destroyed and preserved its statute of a bishop’s center.
Puzzlehead full During medieval times, the road leading to the fortress crossed the Ateren Bridge over the Armira River, which is preserved up to present day. The bridge has an arch construction. The width of the arch is 4.5m and the height is 5.1m. It was built of stones plate, soldered with mortar. The arch was built of processed stones. Most probably the bridge was built during the late Ottoman period of the fortress (15th-18th Centuries).
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