Fort Vrmac

This guide to Fort Vrmac, high on the ridge above Kotor Bay, starts in nineteen fourteen with the garrison of an Austro-Hungarian fortress under Montenegrin artillery fire. From there it goes inside, into the dark casemates built for heavy mortars, and to a question that local lore and the written record answer differently: who painted saints on the walls of a gun room? Bring a torch, and expect bats in the corridors.