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L'île, à pied

Tvrdalj●

Stari Grad

renaissance · courtyard · Stari Grad
The fishpond in the courtyard of Tvrdalj, Stari Grad — stone arcades and still water
Photo · F.G. / Wikimedia Commons

The Tvrdalj was as important to Hektorović as his poem Fishing and Fishermen's Complaints. He built it slowly, a closed world with a pond for the grey mullet, inscriptions in the walls, rooms for guests and for the poor. The courtyard is the thing to see: still water, stone arcades, a little green. It is not large. It does not need to be.