05/06/2020
Is it time to introduce you to my 🤫 Meet my silent companion 😉
This was photographed at 😊
from Imotski to Trogir, we were about 4km from when we noticed a sign to our right, announcing these 14th century .
It is apsolutely .
There is no formal parking here, and although, fairly quiet, this is a fast road.
As is often surprisingly possible in Croatia, we had the site to ourselves, but what were we looking at?
is the plural for a Stećak. They are elaborately sculpted created between the 12th and 15th centuries, which can only be found in the Balkan countries that claim parts of the former territory of the Bosnian Kingdom.
Today that means that most of this beautiful medieval stone sleepers (around.60,000) are found in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but where modern borders now extend across the ancient boundaries it is also possible to find Stećci in Croatia (around 4,400), Montenegro (around 3,500) and Serbia (around 4,100). The Republic of 🇭🇷 on 15 July 2016 enrolled, together with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, the multinational nomination of Stecci – medieval cemetery tombstones on the World Heritage List of 😊
In the nomination Stećci was translated as “medieval tombstones”, but their name literally means – who is standing ☺️
Read more at https://croatiatips.com/stecci-medieval-tombstones/
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