Island Brac, Croatia

Island Brac is the third largest island of Croatia with an area of about 396 km. Brac Island has a population of about 13.000 peple, who are living in numerous little places, which are (by alphabetical order): Bobovisca, Bobovisca N/M, Bol, Dol, Donji Humac, Dracevica, Gornji Humac, Lozisca, Milna, Mirca, Murvica, Nerezisca, Novo Selo, Postira, Povlja, Pucisca, Praznica, Selca, Splitska, Sumartin, Supetar, Sutivan, Skrip



14 October, 2005

Lozisca

Lozisca has chosen its site in a very steep stone glade. The stone houses are strung one upon the other along the sloping lanes that stretch from the rather deep valley and reach to the top of the village.

Everything here is just a stone next to stone or a stone upon a stone. The high, large two-storey houses and the little stone cottages up to the end of the clearing. Lozisca is a munoment to the hard reality of the Brac karst and to the strange choice of theirs, of its inhabitants’ who choose the living stone and crevices to be the foundations of their dwellings in order to make room for a garden, or an olive-grove or a vineyard on the relatively fertile soil.

(Text taken from LOZISCA Island of Brac - Croatians.com)

08 October, 2005

Bobovisca N/M

Bobovisca
It is the port where the famous Croatian writer Vladimir Nazor spent his childhood. In his verses and his fiction he was coming back to this place all his life long. "This book is a return to one period and in one place where I've lost something. I still believe in two things: one left in that little wild cove on the island and to the other I was probably brought by the winds and by the waves. And, I am going there to serch for both." In the family house on the beach there is a little collection and nearby the house there is a statue of the great writer.

(Text and picture taken from Villa Ana - About Bobovisca)

03 October, 2005

Sutivan

Sutivan is a settlement on the north-western coast of Brac, set just opposite Split. It is only 13 km distant from it. Sutivan is an entrance to Brac.
It is at the side of Split with which it has been connected from the day of its birth Sutivan is the result of the side by side existence of the islands primeval inhabitants with the people from across the sea who were constantly emigrating and remaining there in Sutivan.
Today it is lovely little village of the Meditterranean type, with beautiful tree-lined beaches and many holiday houses that stretch along the sea on both sides of the village.

(Text taken from Croatian Heritage)

02 October, 2005

Pucisca

For as long as anyone can remember people in Pucisca have been working with stone, living for it and living from it. Although it sometimes made their lives harder, it never lessened the affection they had for it.

Stone-masonry is here a centuries old profession which is confirmed by some worked out and exhausted quarries. But the stores of good stone are still very rich. Since the Ancient times, Brac had been the source of excellent stone for the stupendous buildings.

(Text taken from the official site of Pucisca)