The village Shkrip
   Photo: The village Shkrip

Shkrip village has less than 200 inhabitants; the name itself comes from the Latin word Scorpus, which means "sharp bare rock." This is not surprising, because the village is located inside the island Shkrip among rocky hills.

One of the attractions of the village is a museum located in the tower Radozhkovicha. It is built on the foundations of a Roman mausoleum, which was part of the famous "cyclopean walls". Legend has it that buried in the mausoleum Prisca and Valeria, the wife and daughter of the famous Emperor Diocletian. In the museum you can see a large number of Roman tombs, altars and reliefs with Christian motifs, as well as objects of everyday life of residents of the island of Brac: pictures, newspaper clippings, and other agricultural implements.

Many buildings in the old part of the village of stone, covered with white roofs, which is typical of houses in the rural areas of the island of Brac. In the central square of the village is the parish church of St. Dir (18th century), in which you can see some valuable paintings by the artist Palma the Younger, as well as two wooden altar.

Nearby is the castle Kerinich (16th century). The lock has a rectangular shape; at one end is a defensive tower, the walls of which are covered with caper bushes. Just behind the castle is the Church of the Holy Spirit, built in the 4th century. And at the entrance to the village, you can see the ruins of the early Christian church of the Sacred Core, dated 6-7 centuries, as well as an abandoned quarry of the Roman era, where marble quarried for the construction of the palace in Split.

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