The Prijeko street is one of the oldest streets in the urban matrix of Cavtat. The curved line of the street that follows the spine of the peninsula is also drawn on the oldest map of the spatial division of the area in question dating back to the 16th century, which is kept in the […]

`This year, thanks to a charitable contribution, an electric light was installed in the parish church as well as in the parish priest’s apartment. At midnight on Christmas Eve, the activation of the electric light precisely at the moment in which the choir started singing ‘Gloria’ contributed much to the cheerful elation of the heart, […]

On 22nd January 1911, Cavtat received a water supply system for the second time in its long urban history. The first water supply system, dating back to antiquity, had already been somewhat forgotten. Somewhere between 14 and 20 C.E., during the governorship of Publius Cornelius Dolabella, a large infrastructure project was carried out in the […]

As the world is witnessing the gradual loosening of the measures concerning COVID-19, the pandemic of our time, let us reflect on the time when another global pandemic was in full swing. The pandemic in question, commonly known as `Spanish flu’, took place roughly a century ago. As a result of globalization and wealth of […]

As decreed by the law of the time, typical Roman necropoli were located outside the city walls. If there was space, city necropoli were divided into burial plots, but almost as a rule they were located along the main road leading to the settlement. As rare archaeological research shows, the necropoli in the Roman colony […]