Coming back from England, I felt the urge to return to Dalmatia, as if a voice from within was telling me that it was there, and only there that true happiness was waiting for me. – I had worked hard, dedicated everything to my art, all the inextinguishable fervour and vigour of my youth. Now […]

In antiquity, when Romans settled the Konavle region, most trades took place by naval routes. Maritime trade routes covered the whole Mediterranean and especially, the Adriatic Sea. The east coast of the Adriatic was more commercially developed than the west, as it abounds in islands and safe harbors for ships to take refuge. Merchant ships […]

The fragments of ceramic objects and vessels found at the archaeological sites, considering their quantity, generally far surpass the glass, stone, and metal finds. Apart from the straightforward aesthetic value of the original object, which is evident at first glance, they also keep and project a variety of hidden messages. This provides us with an […]

Prehistoric inhabitants of our regions were engaged in agriculture since the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, cultivating grains such as wheat, barley, and other cereal. They didn’t know how to grind the grains, and would, instead, crush them by using a sort of a pestle, which was designed to be held in the hand. This technique […]

The site of St. Barbara is located in the village of Dubravka, in the northeast part of the Konavle region, where Croatia shares borders with Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The site is situated at the very beginning of a pass that forms a gap between the mountain of Sokoline on the west and Kočine, […]