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Stari Grad (island of Hvar) plain under protection of UNESCO |
Another Croatian site added to World Heritage List
The Stari Grad Plain on the southern Croatian Adriatic island of Hvar has been
added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, the 7th historical site in Croatia to be
inscribed on the World Heritage List, Croatia's Culture Ministry announced on
Tuesday.
Stari Grad Plain (Croatia) on the Adriatic island of Hvar is a
cultural landscape that has remained practically intact since it was first
colonized by Ionian Greeks from Paros in the 4th century BC. The original
agricultural activity of this fertile plain, mainly centring on grapes and
olives, has been maintained since Greek times to the present. The site is also a
natural reserve. The landscape features ancient stone walls and trims, or small
stone shelters, and bears testimony to the ancient geometrical system of land
division used by the ancient Greeks, the chora which has remained virtually
intact over 24 centuries.
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