Fort of Predil Lake

The Fort of Lake Predil stood near the lake of the same name, in the heart of the Julian Alps, on a promontory facing the lake and in a gorge beside a small watercourse.

Its design dates back to 1884 and it formed part of the “Predil barrier”, whose purpose was to defend the then Austro-Hungarian border against possible Italian incursions.The only remaining building is the one in the Aibl Gorge, which at the time was connected to the fort by an underground passage. The structure is in a good state of preservation and can also be visited inside. It is a single-storey masonry building from which the armoured reinforcement that housed two machine guns has been removed. To see it, visitors need to reach Lake Predil along provincial road SP76 and head for the north-west shore of the lake.