The picture shows the Red Friar. You could only reach the cannon gates by ladders and the construction was therefore, extra impractical. It closed soon after the fortress was completed. 

Bastions

Varberg’s fortress has five bastions: 

The Gray Friar, The White Friar, The Red Friar, The Smithy Bastion and The Reservoir Bastion. 

The bastions are extensions in the corners of the fortress. From the built-in cannon rooms in the bastions the soldiers could shoot along the walls, if the attackers tried to climb over the walls using ladders. 

At Varberg’s fortress there are cannon rooms, so-called casemates, in three of the bastions. Admittedly The soldiers were protected inside, but other problems arose instead, like pressure waves and toxic gunpowder smoke from the cannons. 

Therefore, the casemates were abandoned already in the middle of the 17th century. 

The picture shows the Red Friar. You could only reach the cannon gates by ladders and the construction was therefore, extra impractical. It closed soon after the fortress was completed. 

The picture shows the Red Friar. You could only reach the cannon gates by ladders and the construction was therefore, extra impractical. It closed soon after the fortress was completed.