Lubenice (Croatian pronunciation: [luběnit͡sɛ], Italian: Lubenizze) is an ancient fort city on the Croatian island of Cres that was founded approximately four thousand years ago on top of a 380 m high ridge that overlooks the Adriatic Sea.[3] It is a small local center that comprises forty buildings and six permanent inhabitants.[4][2] Buildings in the city are mainly constructed out of the same material as the surrounding cliffs, a lesser part dates back to a former settlement of ancient Romans.[5] There are two well-preserved extant city gates on the north and south of the city as well a wall in the east. The church in the fort is devoted to the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Croatian: Crkva Pohođenja Blažene Djevice Marije).
It was nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005.[4]
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View of Lubenice -
View of Lubenice -
Lubenice belltower -
Lubenice beach
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
- ^ a b "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
- ^ Barbir, F. & Ulgiati, S. (2008), Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption: Benefits, Springer, ISBN 1-4020-8493-5
- ^ a b Lubenice - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- ^ Das Dorf Lubenice auf der nordkroatischen Insel Cres. Marcel Meier, ETH Zürich, 1997, 2015.10.31 called Archived 2015-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
Bibliography
- Barbir, F. & Ulgiati, S. (2008), Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption: Benefits, Springer, ISBN 1-4020-8493-5
External links
Media related to Lubenice at Wikimedia Commons
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