One of the key figures who marked the social life of Konavle, and especially Čilipi, with his versatile work from the beginning of the 20th century until his retirement in 1929, was the famous Čilipi teacher Niko Skurić. Through pedagogical, educational, cultural, political and economic work and engagement, he greatly improved and shaped the intellectual […]

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A lover of folklore textiles, teacher Jelka Miš dedicated her life to researching, nurturing and preserving folk costumes and textile handicrafts. Her close relationship with Konavle, where she collected samples of folk handicrafts, made objects of high artistic range and taught the art of handicrafts undoubtedly makes her an extremely important person in preserving the […]

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When the fall of the Berlin Wall began on November 9, 1989, the demolition of the ideology that had ruled eastern Europe since the end of World War II was hinted at. At the very heart of the communist government in the USSR, already by the mid-1980s, talk of change was instigated by Perestroika and […]

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