The walls circle the village of Ston and then climb up the hill to reach the Pozvizd Fortress. They then follow a narrow strip of land (an isthmus) to meet with the walls of the village of Mali Stan.Photo credits Martijn Munneke and Wikimedia.
When they were built, starting in the fifteenth century, they were heavily fortified – there are thirty rectangular towers and ten round ones dotted along the five kilometre stretch. What was it that they were built to protect? Apart from serving as a first line of defense for the fairly distant city of Dubrovnik they were constructed to protect a precious commodity – salt.
04 November 2010
The Great Wall of Ston (Croatia)
One of my most pleasant memories is that of walking along the top of the Great Wall of China. I never knew there was a smaller counterpoint in Croatia, until I read a post at Kuriositas today:
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