Kabala and Luštica, which is not far from here, can be barely noticed from the open sea. The large fortresses were protected by dense vegetation and the trench with which they were surrounded. They were also as twins in architecture. Today, Kabala offers the visitor an adventure within its walls, and Luštica outside them. If you decide to explore it, here’s a little guide in order to understand its space:The first two floors of the fortress included the non-combat part. There was a barracks, with a mandatory kitchen, food and ammunition warehouses, rooms for the army and officers, and a toilet. The combat part with artillery, mortars and howitzers, was placed on an open roof platform.

In every fortress in Boka, even in Kabala, the infrastructure was completely solved: regular water supply went through the cistern system, electricity and heating to its own unit, the wastewater system was arranged.

From 1814, when Austria-Hungary won the Bay of Kotor for the second time by the decision of the Congress of Vienna, until the middle of the century, the defense of this area was almost asleep. Then, the famous Austro-Hungarian general, Baron Lazar Mamula, ordered the construction of the fortresses of Lastavica (which will be named after him - Mamula), Arza and Punta Oštro at the entrance to the Bay of Kotoro, forming the first line of defense to enter the Bay.

The rapid development of the military industry in the coming decades will force the Vienna command to move the defense of the entrance to the Bay to another line of defense consisting of the Luštica, Kabala fortresses and many fortifications built around them, as well as a group of fortifications across the Bay, on Kobila. The entrance to the Bay was reinforced with torpedoes and a dense network of mines before the war.

The Austro-Hungarian fleet in the Boka Bay did not have many conflicts during the First World War. At the very beginning, in 1914, several grenades were fired from French ships, which appeared at the entrance to the Bay, at the fortresses of Mamula and Oštro. Artillery responded from the Luštica fortress and it ended, without major damage. The entrance to the Boka Bay was an invincible bastion and no major naval power tried to attack the port from this side until the end of the war.

Exactly at 11 o'clock, on 16th July 1901, Boka was connected to Europe by land, when the first, ceremoniously decorated train entered the Zelenika railway station. Vienna did not ask about the price of this strategic military project.