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Brač

Mrduja

ance of complex structural problems in the final loggia. The votive Church of St Roch comes from 1629, with the old municipal cemetery (1829). The new and probably the most beautiful cemetery on Brač was built from 1909 to 1813 according to designs by Alfred Nonveiller. On Bunta, the foundations of a trefoil Early Christian church of the 6th century have been excavated; this was reshaped during the Early Croatian time (11th century; remains of wall with lesenes), within which the small Late Renaissance Church of St John was erected.

Bobovišća This port was very much frequented in Antiquity. In the nearby and equally quiet Vičja Luka, a mythological setting, and on the Rat hill fort above it, many important Bronze Age remains have been found, as well as Greek and Illyrian weaponry (exhibited in the Split Archaeological Museum). On the southern side of the bay is located the fortified Renaissance-Baroque complex of the Gligo family, and across the way a number of houses of the Nazor family, with the house in which the poet Vladimir Nazor (1876-1949) spent his childhood. On the crag above this he built a lookout tower with a concrete triple column and a frieze that he 34


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