Describe what the Dalmatian is no easy task. We are in Croatia, Italy or where? Korčula, or Korcula? Split or Split? Brac Brac? In fact, the troubled history of this part of Europe is a bit like 'the history of domination that took place on Italian soil.
Dalmatia is definitely a part of Italy, even in Venice, which ruled the Adriatic since the year one thousand. The Dalmatian architecture reveals unmistakably Venetian.
And monuments, churches, squares of Dubrovnik which starts this journey in a kind of machine of time, which brings us back to the glories of Venice. The Stradun , polished but untouched for centuries, dazzles with its whiteness and ancient echoes the cries of the merchants, then as now the neon signs advertising function to perform. Even the ancient Epidauros experienced foreign invasions: Illyrians, Greeks, Romans, Ottomans, Venetians, Hungarians, Austrians, French, Montenegro. Due to (or through) the earthquake of 1667, which completely razed to the ground, Ragusa was reborn from its ruins more beautiful than ever, but still oppressed by foreign rule. To think that this architectural gem comes from its ancient core, Cavtat (Cavtat in Croatian, which derives in turn, from Civitas vetus ). Easy pairing Ragusa-Dubrovnik, Ragusa in Sicily, Civitavecchia, three cities linked by name and somewhat troubled history.
walk on the pavement and soft white of Dubrovnik is a sensual experience. One feels like walking barefoot. The foot seems to caress the back of a woman lying perfectly smooth. Not only the lower limbs are distracted by so much beauty. It is the architecture of this city-nigh perfect wedding favor that saturates the eyes of travelers. Mullioned windows, roofs, walls, streets, alleys, balconies. Each architectural element is perfectly fit together like a giant construction game for children. Matter and the design of the ex-Ragusa give it an inestimable value. Difficult to imagine how much courage - or indifference - to the Montenegrins have been bombed during the 1992 war. If Serbia had no pity for Mostar, just imagine how satisfying it must have been the semidistruzione of Dubrovnik!
The city, enclosed by massive walls, living in a dimension all its own, as if its historic range still survives in some way. The inevitable shops that are more discreet in Split, souvenirs made in China are not as abundant grace to offend the noble Ragusa. Even the invasion of tourists is stemmed from the walls, leaving traffic and congested intersections outside. The inhabitants seem to speak softly, there are no trades or loud cries from the market.
will umidissima for summer heat, but the atmosphere is suspended in a dream world. A small dry Venice, beautiful, playful, where every step you live within a total sensory experience and multidimensional. A good drug that fills the brain. The opposite of kitsch architecture of modern shopping malls, trying in vain to duplicate the superb splendor of the Italian piazza, with its shops, services, public spaces. Ragusa
the Beautiful is still unreachable.
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