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NACIONALNI PARK MLJET
MLJET NATIONAL PARK

Na malom otoku, dugačkom samo 200 m, u A Benedictine abbey dedicated to St Mary was erected © NP Mljet / Mljet National Park
južnom zatonu Velikoga jezera na otoku Mljetu (u in mid-12th century on a small islet with the length of
samom srcu Nacionalnog parka Mljet), podignu- only 200 m, situated in the southern inlet of the large
ta je sredinom 12. stoljeća benediktinska opatija lake on the island of Mljet (in the very heart of the Mljet
posvećena sv. Mariji. Sagrađena je pod južnota- National Park). It was constructed under southern Italian
lijanskim utjecajem koji je obilježio dalmatinsku influence, which marked Dalmatian Romanesque archi-
romaničku arhitekturu i umjetnost 12. i 13. stolje- tecture and art of the 12th and 13th centuries. A tower was
ća. Nad predvorjem crkve podignuta je u 15./16. built above the vestibule of the church in the 15th/16th
stoljeću kula, dograđene su dvije kapele, a pret- century, two chapels were annexed, and the previous
hodni je samostanski sklop s klaustrom znatno convent complex with a cloister was significantly expand-
proširen, dobivši ladanjske karakteristike. Samo- ed, acquiring features of a summer home. The convent
stan je sekulariziran i napušten 1869. Nedavno je was secularised and abandoned in 1869. It was recently
vraćen Dubrovačkoj biskupiji koja ga kani preure- returned to the Diocese of Dubrovnik, which intends to
diti u duhu najbližem izvornome. (JoB) renovate it so it resembles the original structure. (JoB)

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KAMENA PUSTINJA
HERMITAGE ON THE ROCK

U špilji na strmoj litici na južnoj strani otoka Two Glagolitic priests, fleeing the Republic of Poljica © Robert Barilla
Brača 1551. dvojica glagoljaša, bježeći iz Poljica from the Ottomans in 1551, found shelter in a cave
pred Osmanlijama, našla su stan koji se ubrzo on a steep cliff on the southern side of the island of
pretvorio u pustinjački samostan. Naselje izraslo Brač, and soon turned it into a hermit monastery. The
na litici čini nekoliko manjih zgrada povezanih settlement that grew on the cliff itself had several small
hodnicima i stubama, građenih u različito doba. buildings connected with corridors and staircases,
Podignule su ga generacije svećenika koji su se constructed at various times. It was built by genera-
bavili stočarstvom, vinogradarstvom, maslinar- tions of priests who made Blace prosperous by taking
stvom i pčelarstvom, što je Blacima omogući- up livestock farming, making wine, growing olives and
lo veliki prosperitet. Don Niko Miličević stariji, keeping bees. Mon. Niko Milićević the Elder, the restor-
obnovitelj pustinje nakon velike poplave koja er of the hermitage after a devastating flood destroyed
je 1896. uništila vinograde, voćnjake i perivoje, the vineyards, orchards, and parks in 1896, organised
organizirao je javne radove, gradeći pristupne the first public works constructing access roads and
putove i regulirajući vode. Posljednji je svećenik regulating the waters. The last priest in Blace was
u Blacima bio don Niko Miličević ml. († 1963.), Mon. Niko Milićević the Younger († 1963.), priest and
svećenik i astronom, koji je stvorio opservatorij astronomer, who created the observatory equipped with
opremljen knjižnicom, instrumentima i telesko- a library, instruments and telescopes, and who kept
pima te ostvario veze s mnogim svjetskim astro- in contact with world renown fellow astronomers and
nomima i zvjezdarnicama. (JoB) observatories. (JoB)

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GRAD I REPUBLIKA
CITY AND THE REPUBLIC

Slika Dubrovnika arhetip je sredozemnoga grada. The image of Dubrovnik is an archetype of a Mediterra- © Ljubo Gamulin
Povijesna jezgra izrasla je na grebenu podno nean city. Its historical core grew on a cliff beneath Srđ
brda Srđa. Arheološki nalazi otkrivaju ostatke hill. Archaeological finds have revealed the remains of
prapovijesnog naselja i antičke vile rustike te a prehistoric settlement and a Roman villa rustica, as
kasnijeg bizantskog kastruma koji je sredinom well as a later Byzantine castrum, which protected the
7. stoljeća zaštitio izbjegle stanovnike obli- refugee citizens of the nearby Epidaurum (today Cavtat)
žnjeg Epidaura (današnjega Cavtata). Postupno in mid-7th century. The gradually acquired self-govern-
stečena gradska samouprava okrunjena je formi- ment of the city was crowned with the formation of
ranjem slobodne države koja je procvat doživje- a free state that reached its peak in the 15th and 16th
la u 15. i 16. stoljeću, razvijajući se na „oranju centuries, developing by “ploughing the sea”, meaning
mora“, odnosno na trgovačkom i diplomatskom a commercial and diplomatic intermediation between
posredništvu između balkanskog zaleđa i Medi- the Balkan hinterland and the Mediterranean. The city
terana. Grad je pak nastao nizom planskih proši- was developed through a series of planned extensions.
renja. Svojom strukturom unutar srednjovjekov- Its structure within the Medieval walls and its surround-
nih zidina te okolicom u kojoj se od 15. do 19. ings, in which a true “garden” town with hundreds of
stoljeća oblikovao istinski vrtni grad sa stotinjak houses, villas, and small palaces was formed from the
kuća, vila i pravih malih dvoraca, jedinstven je 15th to the 19th centuries, makes it a unique example
primjer europske srednjovjekovne gradogradnje of European Medieval city planning (UNESCO World
(UNESCO-ov Popis svjetske baštine). (JoB) Heritage List). (JoB)

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