Korčula

by Natasa Lujic
(Dubrovnik)

The fortified old city, with streets distributed in form of fish thorn that allow the free circulation of the air but protects of strong winds, firmly is constructed in a promontory that controls the narrow zone between the island and mainland.

To construct outside the walls was prohibited until 1700, and the wood drawbridge was only replaced in 1863. All the narrow streets of Kórcula are peatonales, with the only exception of the street that goes throughout the Southeastern wall.

The city includes several remarkable historical monuments: the catholic cathedral of San Marcos (constructed between 1301 and 1806), a monastery franciscano of 1400 (with a beautiful one to cloister gothic veneciano), the cameras of the civic advice of the city, the palace of the old venecianos governors, the palaces of the local mercantile aristocracy (of centuries XV and XVI), and the great fortifications of the city.

The devotee catholics of Kórchula maintain old ecclesiastical ceremonies popular and a game military (moreška) that in Average age it was made in all The Mediterranean.

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