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09-Jun-2020 04:22
Today they are in ruins, but in places one can still make out ring-shaped embankments up to several metres high in places.For example, a hill named Gradina (a Croatian word for “hillfort”) rises some fifty meters above the western side of Modrič cove.People obtained water using natural sources called kamenice, ledenice, čatrnje, lokve, špilje, vrulje...More about cultural and historical heritage that speaks of millennia of human existence on the slopes of Velebit despite harsh living conditions and scarcity of water brings „The Velebit`s story about water“.In the late 19th and early 20th century, Austro- Hungarian authorities strived to improve water supply in Dalmatia by building large cisterns.Public cisterns in Starigrad-Paklenica, Seline, and Tribanj were built at that time.
Rare springs are located in higher mountain reaches, while permanent watercourses are virtually nonexistent due to the permeability of the karstic terrane.In authentic atmosphere of this stone house you will find traditional food of the area and permanent exhibition Mirila – unique custom from the past, today protected intangible cultural heritage of the Republic of Croatia.The house is open for visitors from May to October.They enclose and protect an area of about 2,5 hectares that used to be occupied by a prehistoric settlement.
Judging by the finds collected from its surface, the settlement probably dates from the Iron Age (1st millennium B.There are preserved, distinct gravestones in the shape of massive rock slabs decorated with simple, shallow relief depictions, dating back to the 14th-16th centuries.