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July 8, 2014

Petar Hektorovic’s Tvrdalj

08 Jul 2014
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Petar Hektorović’s Tvrdalj (1487 – 1572) with a fish-pond and a dove-cot over it, is the most famous building in Stari Grad. This renaissance poet built it throughout his entire life and it had the same importance for him as his literary work. There he realized the idea of...

Old town plain-UNESCO heritage

08 Jul 2014
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The large plain occupies the island’s central area. Its name kept changing with the successive arrival of masters. First known by the Greeks as chora Pharu, it became Ager Pharensis in Roman times, to be replaced by the medieval name of Campus Sancti Stephani (the Field of...

“Lapidary” (collection of stone monuments)

08 Jul 2014
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In 1970, Hvar’s Cultural Heritage Center, headed by Mr. Niko Dubokovic, Ph.D., placed the “Lapidary” in the space surrounded by the church-fortress, bell tower and protective wall. The Lapidary contains about twenty stone monuments dating back to ancient and...

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