Fortified wine Madeira Islands. The wine is produced in a variety of styles ranging from dry wines which can be consumed on their own as an aperitif, to sweet wines more usually consumed with dessert. Madeira is deliberately heated and oxidised as part of its maturation process, resulting in distinctive flavours and an unusually long lifespan once a bottle is opened. Marsala wine is a wine from Sicily that is available in both fortified and unfortified versions. It was first produced in 1772 by an English merchant, John Woodhouse, as an inexpensive substitute for sherry and port, and gets its name from
Chrobry fortified village in Szprotawa Chrobry fortified village in Szprotawa The Chrobry fortified village (Polish: "Gród Chrobry", German: "Wallburg Chrobry"), named for the Polish first crowned king Boleslaw Chrobry, and located in the town of Szprotawa (), is an archaeological earthwork and a historical monument in the province of Lower Silesia, one of the largest of its kind in Poland. The site lies in the old Bóbr river valley, in the Park Słowiański nature reserve, and comprises a polygonal plateau of in size, which is raised 6 metres above its surroundings. The surface of the polygon is flat throughout, and has regular, steep inclined edges.