Exploring Croatia With Darka

Step by step, revealing layers of history  With every step we stumble over a stone that tells a story leading us into past centuries. Prothyron as a decorative cloak at the entrance to the emperor's private rooms today wears elements from all the centuries through which our city came into being. If you look at the entrance to the former apartment of the Emperor Diocletian, you can see the Roman architecture from the time of the palace construction, but right at the entrance mantle of the Prothyron  there are much older monumental columns with Corinthian capitals, which the Emperor had transferred from distant Egypt, which he also ruled. Between the pillars of the Prothyron, two chapels were built in the Middle Ages, which are still there today. In the backside of the Prothyron, above the entrance to Vestibule we see a large supporting arch built of brick and tuff in its original Roman shape. Further we see the Vestibule, a magnificent hall that was a representative entrance to...

Since the eighties, since I've been in tourism, I've been constantly hearing stories about different adventures, legends, customs. Again and again we were told and trained how these stories should be passed on to tourists. I remember how we used to stop by tobacco fields to see, touch and smell the plant, I remember how we presented freshly baked bread that had just come out of the ashes under the bell, I remember going into the village and showing to tourists an old mill that was still working, the landlady would bake sweetly and the master of the house would flaunt his wooden statues, a real naive art. When I was a child, I remember how mostly old men would invite tourists to come into their small boats and take them to the other side of the bay or to a nice beach. Sponges, shells, stones, even today you can see children selling wonderful natural objects to tourists. Sweet memories by Darka  All of this is storytelling of its kind. Every smile from the boatman,  every natura...