Sisak
10-26-2013, 11:26 AM
Lubenice is an ancient fort city on the island of Cres, Croatia that was founded approximately four thousand years ago on top of a 380 m high ridge that overlooks the Adriatic Sea. It is a small local center that comprises forty buildings and seven permanent inhabitants. Buildings in the city are constructed out of the same material as the surrounding cliffs and there are two well-preserved extant city gates on the North and South of the city as well a wall in the East.
It was nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005.
Exactly opposite Valun, along the range of plateaus that rise on the central part of the island, and chained to the hill is where the village Lubenice is situated, bravely resisting storms and wind gusts.
The Romans, therefore, named this place Hibernicia (meaning Winterly), building an unassailable fortress that rises on top of a 378m high cliff, sheltered from the east by a protective wall with two doors.
http://i44.tinypic.com/beu71h.jpg
Once there, the first impression you get is that you are on deck of a firmly anchored ship, carrying you into another time dimension. Traces of the village's glorious past are still clearly visible, such as the gun slits and the port-holes built inthe fortress walls.
It's enough just to climb on the short wall that encircles the city square to feel intoxicated, feeling like a seagull that freely glides over the tempestuous surface of the navy-blue sea.
Concerts of classical music are being held here during the warm summer evenings in an atmosphere of magical concentration, and there is a multi-medial art centre in the works. Standing next to the Church of St. Anthony, on the outskirts of the village, one notices the motel, which was formerly the bell-tower's atrium. There is another church nearby, the Parochial Church of the Holy Virgin Mary, which used to be a canonical seat.
It was nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005.
Exactly opposite Valun, along the range of plateaus that rise on the central part of the island, and chained to the hill is where the village Lubenice is situated, bravely resisting storms and wind gusts.
The Romans, therefore, named this place Hibernicia (meaning Winterly), building an unassailable fortress that rises on top of a 378m high cliff, sheltered from the east by a protective wall with two doors.
http://i44.tinypic.com/beu71h.jpg
Once there, the first impression you get is that you are on deck of a firmly anchored ship, carrying you into another time dimension. Traces of the village's glorious past are still clearly visible, such as the gun slits and the port-holes built inthe fortress walls.
It's enough just to climb on the short wall that encircles the city square to feel intoxicated, feeling like a seagull that freely glides over the tempestuous surface of the navy-blue sea.
Concerts of classical music are being held here during the warm summer evenings in an atmosphere of magical concentration, and there is a multi-medial art centre in the works. Standing next to the Church of St. Anthony, on the outskirts of the village, one notices the motel, which was formerly the bell-tower's atrium. There is another church nearby, the Parochial Church of the Holy Virgin Mary, which used to be a canonical seat.