It is a stange feeling indeed to eat lunch in the middle of a ghetto. But it's not entirely unreasonable. The fortress, built between 1780 and 1790, was where Gavrillo Princip, the assassin of the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, the trigger for the First World War, was impriosned there and died there of tuberculosis. Czechs lived nearby and even in the fortress, as it was quite large and designed essentially as a military town. But the defensive walls worked as well to keep people in as out.
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