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Popular Things To Do | Miscellaneous Things To Do Tips | All Tips (43) Cavtat was once a Greek colony, and it was the inhabitants of Cavtat (Epidaurus as it was known then) who founded Dubrovnik in the 7th Century. It was built according to the regulation plans prescribed by the Republic, and the result was the present-day look of the old part of Cavtat. The town became known aas Cavtat - originates from Civitas vetus, meaning the fugitives which the newly established Dubrovnik used to call their first habitation. Modern Dubrovnik is now just a few kilometres down the road and today Cavtat is a popular resort set behind a picturesque bay harbour and the tree-lined promenade with many pavement cafes, restaurants, bars and shops.
Many monuments of history and culture belong to the fine but modest Renaissance architecture with some traces of the Gothic style: the Rector's palace, fortifications, city walls round the city, squares, St. Nicholas' church, the church dedicated to Our Lady of Cavtat and the Franciscan monastery.
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Here sits one of the great men of Cavtat. I was intrigued by the abundance of information about what he did, partly contradictory, but nothing about who he was. Searching the web I have found no information about wife and children, which either means he did not have any, or the historians don't find such information interesting.
Bogišic was born in Cavtat 7 dec 1834. He left Cavtat at the age of 22, and never came back to live there. He studied and / or worked in Venice, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Giessen, Odessa, Kiev, Cetinje and Paris, was a member of several academic and scientific organisations. His main field was law, and his most known work is the civil law of Montenegro; Even though the law was autoritarian and patriarchal, it was a great step forward in Montenegro at the time.
Bogišic was a collector, who left his collections to the community of Cavtat. I get a little confused by the sources about Bogišices collections. One claims his letter collection consisted of private correspondence (10,092 letters!). Another source refers to letters exchanged between turkish and coastal lords concerning smaller and larger controversies at the time of the ottoman empire. These letters are written in the local language and are of great importance for researching cultural, legal and social history of the 16th and 17th centuries (http://www.almissa.com/povijestomiskekrajineipoljica_.htm).
The latter would be in accordance with what is else known about Bogišic (and who would write 10,000 letters in a lifetime!); He collected coins from Serbia, Kotor (Cattaro), Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Poland, Russia, Bohemia and other countries. He did sociological, ethnological and demographic research. He collected and got printed 76 "bugarštica" from the coastal area of Dalmatia, a very old and very special kind of folk songs. And he was an active contributor in the "zadruga" (slavic term for "compound family") debates. Leave a Comment Address: Bogišic Park, downtown CavtatDirections: Right in the middle of Cavtat, next to the Rector PalaceWebsite: http://www.cavtatportal.com/pages/baltazar_baldo_bogisic.htm
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Baltazar (Baldo) Bogišiċ, a scientist, a jurist of European fame, and a member of many intellectual societies, was born in Ċavtat on December 7, 1834. He learned successively in Venice, Vienna, Berlin, Munich and Giesen. He has been a professor in Odessa. In 1872 Montenegro's king Nikola invited him to produce the Civil laws. He went several times to Paris where he finally lived from 1898 to 1908. Baltazar Baldo Bogišiċ passed away in Rijeka on April 24, 1908 en route to his native Ċavtat.
The Bogišiċ museum exhibits 18,000 rare volumes from his collection, together with a great many artifacts unearthed in and around Ċavtat and that he had gathered. Leave a Comment
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Take a walk up to the top of the hill to St. Roko cemetary. It is a bit steep, but not very long. A beautiful place for the eternal rest!!! (Pics. 1 and 2) And the view of Cavtat from above is lovely (pic. 5).
The Racic family Mausoleum is situated at this cemetary (pics. 3 and 4), created by the fameous croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic Cavtat has a long tradition of sailors and shipowners, and The Racic family owned a steamboat company founded in 1910. Rumours has it that Marija, the daughter of the family, had a love affair with Mestrovic (others claim that it was the mother Mare who was his mistress!). The whole family of four died within a short period of time around 1920. Leave a Comment Address: St. Roko hill, CavtatDirections: Behind the Franciscan Monastery and ChurchWebsite: http://www.tzcavtat-konavle.hr/novo/english/racic_mausoleum.html
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