New health laws for Croatia and Slavonia, as well as for Istria and Dalmatia, passed in 1874, significantly improved the state of the healthcare service. Certainly, the most important provision of this law was that each municipality, alone or together with several other municipalities, must have one municipal doctor and had to establish a health […]

`If some of the folk economics experts did not hesitate to adhere to the saying “The freedom of every nation can be measured by its wealth, and its wealth can, in turn, be measured by its freedom” as their guiding principle, even though such a principle is not without its exceptions, it could not be […]

The summer season in the traditional culture, unlike the winter period, was not as rich in terms of calendar customs and folk festivities; only localised smaller-scale events were held during that time of the year, as well as the occasional feast days dictated by the liturgical year. Summer was the season during which no significant […]

Despite the common belief, the sole purpose of hunting is not killing wild animals for sustenance. In fact, the hunting is also concerned with wildlife nourishment and preserving biodiversity. In other words, the primary task of today’s hunters is to prevent the extinction of animal species or the endangerment of one species by another. To […]

U našem portu bije se boj, igra Cavtat – tim moj i tvoj! (In our port, a battle is raging; our team, Cavtat, is playing!) Along with the growing popularity of sea swimming, the latter half of the 19th century saw the rise of various aquatic recreational activities and games. One of them would subsequently […]