On Good Friday, young girls paint eggs that they will then try to sell in the streets behind the Saint James cathedral in Šibenik. I guess they were disappointed since I did not buy any. April 2014. Le Vendredi Saint, les filles peignent des oeufs qu’elles vont ensuite essayer de vendre dans les rues derrière…
I was on a bridge in Trogir, between the old city and the harbor when I took this picture. All of a sudden, a few dozens of Croatian men started to walk up the bridge. It was around 3pm. It could be that they were workers leaving work from a shipbuilding plant. I do not…
Palm Sunday in Dubrovnik is unthinkable without ‘pomica’ (plaited palm leaves), which are taken to church be blessed. The tradition of plaiting palm leaves is specific to the Dubrovnik area and does not exist anywhere else. The bishop of Dubrovnik blesses the palm leaves on the stairs of the beautiful church of Saint-Blaise. April 2014.…
The Good Friday mass with the bishop in Split takes place in the cathedral that used to be the mausoleum of the Roman emperor Diocletian, in the middle of his palace. It is quite ironical since Diocletian is mostly remembered for having ordered the bloodiest official persecution of Christianity in the Roman empire. These young…
While walking up the streets of the old Dubrovnik city, you find some of these ladies who quietly knit and sell their own production. April 2014. En montant les rues pentues de la vieille ville de Dubrovnik, on trouve certaines de ces dames qui tricotent tranquillement et vendent leur propre production. Avril 2014.
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