Forte Chievo, originally "Werk Kaiser Franz Josef", is an Austrian fort built between 1850 and 1852 by the will of Radetzky, with a project of Petrasch Conrad, director of Genie Direction of Verona.
This fort, dedicated to the young emperor Franz Joseph I of Habsburg, became a model of military architecture for later fortifications in Verona and the Habsburg Empire. It is remarkable the geometric perfection of the planimetry, its symmetry, the use of curvilinear connections, the complex and rational articulation of the parts. Overall and in the details, stands out the build quality and the beauty of the stone works, with ashlar masonry walls of "tuff" (local nummulitic limestone). The fort geometry is polygonal.
It closed the entrenched camp to the north; on the left was in tandem with the Croce Bianca Fort, and controlled the streets to Pescantina and Peschiera. The right side and the front of the throat controlled the loop of the Adige river and the railroad to Bolzano. In 1861 the fort was integrated in the line of the enlargement of the entrenched camp.
Today the fort is still fairly preserved.
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