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On Good Friday people from all villages which belong to Lovrec are walking in procession about 13 km through all villages’ wearing a big cross on the shoulders. It is a great honour to carry the cross and during procession people are changing to wear it. The choir sing in procession the impressive melodious song "Crying of Our Lady" from the 15th century. They called this procession “The cross way”. Through whole way of procession people pray and sing recalling Jesus suffer to the final death on the cross. Interesting thing is that in villages people meet them and offer them food and refreshment. This is some pictures how it looks like.

Tradition of Good Friday is to eat fish and drink red wine. Children use to paint eggs and grandmothers bake sweet bread for Easter day. They always made more to give family and friends. The most interesting animation for children at Easter is to make a egg competition and stamp each others egg, the strongest egg wins and the owner of that egg is winner.

Easter Sunday involves going to the early morning mass with small baskets filled with food to be blessed; eating a breakfast of ham, eggs, grated horse radish, spring onion and home-made bread; and a dinner of turkey. Little children might also get candy from the Easter Bunny.And Easter Monday is for visiting relatives.

I wish you all a very happy and blessed Easter!

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In Split shipyard one day can be more or less interesting, but for shore it is lot of different and hard work.

And it is certainly unusual to see is a woman’s working in shipyard (we are not talking here about office work; it is a question about job in shipyard under construction area).

Generally, those ladies are painting the ships and they are very good in that.

They are all young and educated with long working experience. Many of them have even very good accomplishment. We use to say here “situation force you to use any option you can get“. Well all I can say:” Hat down” for them. We all know that working conditions there are extremely dangerous and also death cases are not rarity on that kind of job.

Split shipyard is not only small place of work, its whole working town. Living and working in expectation of some better tomorrow is hope for this people surrounded with lot of metal.

Here are some photos of one ordinary day so they know, we didn’t forget them.

Salute to them.

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Sibenik cathedral is not only a unique building in between cathedrals, she is also a unique building in between Christians churches in whole Europe.

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The world first time heard about the Sibenik cathedral in 1991, when the Yugoslavian army bombed the Cathedral from boats, which caused heavy damages to the building.

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After the war the cathedral was renovated with help of foreign experts, by the renovation works, it was discovered how unique this cathedral actually is, the building is the first montage building in Europe, and it is build completely in stone without use of any other material, even the roof has been build with out the use of wood.

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As the historical and architectural value of this monument became clear, the ministry of culture started action to put the cathedral of Sv. Jakov/ St. Jacob at UNESCO register of world heritage list. The approval is still in progress.

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The Cathedral was built in the 15th century by the architect 1441. Juraj Matejev Dalmatinac. The Cathedral is original building combination of gothic and renaissance style, inside it is a unique example of some kind culmination of humanistic spirit and early renaissance art/paint directions.

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