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Location details
Ruined Monastery near Bol
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GPS*: 43.2686°, 16.5854°
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In the town of Bol, the tourist centre of Brac Island, there is a Dominican monastery which traces its origins back to the 15th century; to this day a small number of monks still live there.
The ruins we visited are just a few kilometres away, on a rocky outcrop overlooking the coast, and are certainly connected in some way with the monastery at Bol. Presumably this was some sort of hermitage associated with the main monastery. However, I wasn't able to find any more precise information about it - which is curious, since there are a number of buildings here which form an impressive sight, and the architecture is quite striking. The church is built into a rocky cave in spectacular fashion, and - judging by the architecture of the facade and the altar - would seem to date back to the 18th century. However, it seems that the buildings were abandoned about a hundred years ago, as they are now in a very advanced state of decay.
We visited this location on 9/14/07 at 2:00 p.m. and on 9/10/09 at 9:30 a.m.
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