The article is unclear on who built it. The lead credits the medieval Serbian state, while the body says Bulgarians, Serbs or Hungarians might have, and proposes King Stefan Dragutin in 1286. Most of the fortress was built early in the 14th century, and the chapel probably dates to the first half of the 15th. After a Hungarian raid in 1481, the Ottomans added the final tower and cannon ports.
It has nine towers guarding three compounds, plus a tenth cannon tower. The first nine are 66 to 82 feet (20 to 25 m) high, with walls 7 to 10 feet (2 to 3 m) thick. A dam built from 1964 to 1972 flooded the lower slope.
Reconstruction ran from 2014 to 2019. A state company administers it, and the fortress had about 63,000 visitors in 2017.
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