Lozisca

Small, grey, forbidding is how the town of Ložišća would seem, with its cottages built tightly against one another, the almost windowless south façades, the hollows dug into the karst rock and the karst dust on the roofs - all the more so since ever more young villagers have been seeking wider horizons… Were it not for the colourful highlights, which say far more about the character and charm of this place than functional walls do: the shutters are painted in all the colours of the rainbow, and in the laboriously laid-out gardens grapes and tomatoes gleam, lemons and olives shine in the sun and beds of herbs and flowers are planted. The residents who have stayed tend their village and their farming very lovingly, so that even those who have never been here do not feel like strangers.

Towards the end of the 19th century Ivan Rendić devised the form and structure of the church tower of Ložišća, which looks more like a toy church from the Ore Mountains than a typically Dalmatian construction. It may not fit altogether harmoniously into the rustic townscape, but it is an eye-catcher in any case. Next to it stands the neo-Romanesque church, which was built as early as 1820.