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Franzensfeste Fortress (Italian: Forte di Fortezza; German: Festung Franzensfeste) is a fortress situated in a village Franzensfeste in South Tyrol Italy.Emperor Francis I began constructing the fortress in 1833. In 1838 the project had been abandoned because the area was not considered to be functional to place a fortress.In the summer of 2008 the fortress was opened to the public for the first time as one of the locations of Manifesta 7 the European Biennial of Contemporary art.
