The best proofs that “Heavenly garden” existed are the sights from Ljubuški
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ubuški – the synonym for the sun and glowing hot stone, summer heat and the cicada; the synonym for the water springs and the greenery, gardens and the fields of vegetables and cereal crops, scents “The Tourist Board of West Herzegovinian Canton also didn’t fall behind as the main organizer, coorganizer or in co-financing of certain events, cleanings or arranging some places in the very town and outside of it. Just for the renovation of the old monastery church at Humac The Tourist board gave 295,000 KM; for adopting and renovation of the Herceg Stjepan Kosača fortress 25,000 KM; for the parish of Veljaci 20,000 KM; for the creation of the Master plan of Ljubuški 7,000 KM; for the replacement of the worn out windows and doors on the Cultural Home “St Anthony” at Humac 12,000 KM; for placing the urban tourist signalization, and co-financing and arranging many other places in the municipality of Ljubuški. All of these activities have significantly contributed to the new looks of Ljubuški”, said the chairman of the Tourist Board of WHC, Mr Ivan Matić.
of the endemic medicinal herbs. Ljubuški takes us to the faraway history with the walls of the old town from 15th century, and you can take a look into the oldest museum in BiH that still preserves the exhibits from the wider Herzegovina area from the Palaeolithic and Neolithic, over the Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages of the prehistory and the Middle Ages. The rock is here wherever you turn around and wherever you go. In this or the other way, the rock makes this area firm and solid, and its energy had developed the strong will in the intentions of these people “to work and to have”. Their hands would have had a lot to tell about that. On the other hand, the springs of po-
table water at every step make the oppositeness to the dryness of the hills, and precisely the water, this existential, shimmering and clean liquid sooths and quench the thirst of the cracked earth with the rock in it or around it. This is the conciliation of the oppositeness, completion, the harmony that this place offers: having both, equally valuable. The landscape of the Ljubuški area is very interesting. It is covered with several types of soil some areas have red soil, some black, and some vineyards are growing from the soil called biljuga (whitish soil), while the vegetables grow from the sandy soil. The hills are growing from
Ivan Matić
Tourism BiH • July 2010
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