Colibri is a matter of story, history and culture.
Dubrovnik ships sailed all “then know” seas around the world.In the English ports they made such a deep impression on their spectators that a new English word was coined – argosy (a distorted version of the Italian name for Dubrovnik, Ragusa) which later came to be used as an expression for a huge sailing-ship or general expression for large merchant ships. Argosy is even mentioned by Shakespeare in his play Merchant of Venice.
Luckily I ran into a lovely song about main street in old town of Dubrovnik – Stradun. The author of the song is Luko Paljetak, a famous poet from Dubrovnik.
That’s not a mere street but a paternoster
of everyday life, our anteroom, a hall
of Versailles, a place where you can walk and ball,
according to the tune and to yourself, impostor.
Cvijeta Zuzorić (Flora Zuzori, Floria Zuzzeri) was born in Dubrovnik in 1552, and died in Ancona in 1648. As a little girl she went with her father to Ancona where she acquired higher education and where she socialize with many artists.
Sadly, about her life we lack reliable data, but the story we get in the heritage is anything but poor or spare. Continue reading “Cvijeta Zuzorić”
If you’ll walk only through the main streets in the old town of Dubrovnik you’ll never notice the remains of church of St. Stephen in Dubrovnik. It is very likely that you’ll ‘skip it’ while walking on the city walls of Dubrovnik as well. The sea and island Lokrum will ‘book’ your view for sure.