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Culture and heritage

Take advantage of the vicinity and accessibility of the Golden Island of Krk to explore its impressive history and heritage through breath-taking stories and curiosities that make it miraculous and mysterious at the same time. Or simply search for your favourite beach bursting with sounds, scents and colours…

Culture and heritage

Krk is an island with a rich cultural and historical heritage that needs to be experienced. Small, winding roads dominate within the old centres of almost every village on the island, with each parish church being unique and recognizable.

If you would like to get to know the islanders’ way of life in the past, you should certainly visit the homeland museums with their ethnographic and sacral collections, the numerous galleries and the Vitezić library in Vrbnik. The small island of Košljun, nearby Punat is a unique cultural and historical place that should certainly be visited during your stay on the island of Krk.

The Baška tablet

The Glagolitc alphabet was created by the stylisation of Greek cursive around the middle of the 9th century.
Saint Cyril is mainly mentioned as the author of the Glagolitic alphabet who used this alphabet for his translation of ecclesiastical books into the ancient Slavic language.
The Glagolitic alphabet appears in two variants: rounded and squared. Supposedly these characteristics were developed later. The oldest Croatian monument written in Glagolitic alphabet, the Baška tablet, is partly written in the round variant, but the specific Croatian variant of the Glagolitic alphabet is the squared variant.

It was first mentioned in Croatia in the 12th century and it is most common in coastal parts of Croatia (Istria, the Croatian Littoral, Dalmatia, Zadar and Kvarner island, initially on the islands of Krk, Cres and Lošinj).

In 1851, a young priest from Baška, Petar Dorčić found a large stone tablet inscribed with Glagolitic symbols in the soil of the early Romanic church of St. Lucy in Jurandvor, near Baška. The text written on the tablet was of great interest for scientists of the period. It became an important source of information regarding the development of the Croatian Glagolitic alphabet as well as the Croatian language and culture. It proved the existence of the Croatian state fromits earliest days; mentioning the name of the Croatian king, Zvonimir and marks the northern borders of his kingdom on the island of Krk.

The text on the tablet was partly read in 1865 and completely in 1875. It was believed that the tablet included secret data, but it was later established that the tablet was the certification of the donation of land which king Zvonimir donated to the Benedictine monastery of Saint Lucy. The tablet lists the witnesses of that deed of donation and describes the time in which the donation took place. It can be established from that part of the text that the tablet dates back to 1100. In 1934, the tablet was, transferred to the Academy of Science and Art in Zagreb where it still stands today. A copy of it is also exhibited in the church of St. Lucy. The church and the partly renewed monastery complex today attracts many visitors.
Small copies of the tablet can be bought at the souvenir shops.

CONTACT
“az”, AGENCY FOR CULTURE AND TOURISM

Dana Kružić
Baška 51523, Jurandvor bb
Tel/fax. 051/860-184
Mob. 091/511-3943
e-mail: azjurandvor@yahoo.com

Cultural and historical heritage

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We could say that the island of Krk is more than rich with historical monuments. And their content is known from prehistoric times to the present. However, there are a large number of monuments which cannot all be named, so we’ll mention just a few: Read more

 

Omišalj

Malinska

Krk

Punat

Baška

Vrbnik

Dobrinj

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