Medieval Korcula
by W Chris Fooshee
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Medieval Korcula
Artist
W Chris Fooshee
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The medieval town of Korčula is an almost perfectly preserved Venetian town of the 16th century with later Baroque additions surrounded by turquoise waters. The reputed birthplace of Marco Polo in about 1254, Korčula has no real “sights” to see, a day there is best spent wandering the bougainvillea festooned, narrow cobblestone streets of its old town, stopping into the occasional shop, and enjoying a leisurely lunch seaside.
Korčula was colonized the Greeks in the 4th century BCE, and subsequently occupied by the Romans, Goths, Slavs, Byzantines, and Genoese; the kings of Hungary and Croatia and the Bosnian dukes resided there; and such powers as Russia, France, Britain, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire also held the island. It passed to Yugoslavia after World War I, and Yugoslav Partisans recovered it from the Germans in 1944–45.
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