The Salt of Ston: Local Stories Ep 11
We all know that the Great Wall of China is the longest wall in the world, but did you know that the second longest was in Croatia, and it’s the longest in Europe! The wall protected one thing, salt, and Croatia’s sun, wind and salty waters were the perfect ingredients to produce this “White Gold” during Roman times.
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Salt pans from Ston in Croatia-Salzernte aus Ston in Kroatien
White Gold of Ston
This Croatian sea town is located in Dubrovnik – Neretva County, and its history dates back to the distant Middle Ages and early 14th century. Built on the model of Dubrovnik, Ston can boasts the longest stone wall in Europe, incredible 5.5 kilometers long. Also known as the City of salt, it used to have great value because of the white gold which he abounds and we can recall the period 14th and 15th century, when the exchange of kilo of salt per kilo of gold was commonly. Today he owns sections of the oldest active salt pant in the world, which still, from ancient times, produces salt in a traditional and natural way.
And so that you may wish to visit this magical town, we bring you some cadre of his stone, charm and salt production process :)
Мали Стон | Стон | Ферма за Стриди | Хърватска | Mali Ston | Ston | Oyster Farm | Croatia
Съвсем близо до Дубровник се намират Стон и Мали Стон - градчета известни със своите крепостни стени, стари солници и прочутите стонски стриди.
Няма да крия, причината да отида до там бяха стридите! Обичам техния вкус! Досега не бях виждала точно как се отглеждат и ми беше супер интересно. Вярвам, че и за вас ще бъде.
Толкова е хубаво човек да похапва супер пресни стриди. Само тези, които са опитвали могат да ме разберат. Стридите са основна причина туристите като мен да идват в Мали Стон. Тук има няколко заведения, предлагащи прясна морска храна и малко пристанище, където са рибарските лодки. Валеше дъжд и нямаше много хора, което беше идеално, защото бяхме сами на лодката, която щеше да ни отведе по-близо до стридите. Страхотно изживяване! Много ми хареса и дълго ще го помня.
След приключението по вода отидох и до Стон, който е съвсем близо до Мали Стон.
Там пих страхотно вино и посетих една от най-старите солници в Европа. Крепостните стени, които се извисяват над града били построени за да пазят солниците от вражески набези.
За жалост нямах време да ги разгледам от близо. Беше време да тръгна на път за Которският залив. Следващото видео ще е от там.
Аз съм Лора. Приятен път! ????
I’m Lora. Have a nice journey! ✈
Very near Dubrovnik are located Ston and Mali Ston - small towns famous for their defensive stone walls, old salt pans and the well known oysters from Ston.
I’ll not hide it, the reason I went there were the oysters! I love their taste! Until then I hadn’t seen exactly how they were bred and it was super interesting for me. I believe it will be for you too.
It’s so nice to eat super fresh oysters. Only those of you who have tried them know what I mean. Oysters are the main reason tourists like me come to Mali Ston. There are several restaurants here offering fresh seafood and there’s a little harbour where the fishing boats are. It was raining and there weren’t many people which was perfect because we were alone on the boat which was to take us nearer the oysters. A fabulous experience! I liked it very much and I’ll remember it for a long time.
After the boat trip I went to Ston too which is very near Mali Ston.
There I drank great wine and visited one of the oldest salt pans in Europe. The defensive walls which rise above the city were built to keep the salt pans from enemy raids.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to see them up close. It was time to leave for the Bay of Kotor. The next video will be from there.
I’m Lora. Have a nice journey! ✈
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The Walls of Ston, Croatia
According to Wikipedia...
The Walls of Ston are a series of defensive stone walls, originally more than 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) long, that surrounded and protected the city of Ston, in Dalmatia, part of the Republic of Ragusa, in what is now southern Croatia.
The Walls of Ston were known as the European wall of China.
Despite being well protected by massive city walls, the Republic of Ragusa used Pelješac to build another line of defence. At its narrowest point, just before it joins the mainland, a wall was built from Ston to Mali Ston. Throughout the era of the Republic, the walls were maintained and renovated once they meant to protect the precious salt pans that contributed to Dubrovnik's wealth, which are still being worked today.
Demolition work began on the walls following the fall of the Republic. Later the Austrian authorities took materials away from the wall to build schools and community buildings, and also for a triumphal arch on the occasion of the visit by the Austrian Emperor in 1884. The wall around Mali Ston was demolished with the excuse that it was damaging the health of the people. The demolition was halted after World War II.
The wall, today 5.5 kilometre long wall links Ston to Mali Ston, and is in the shape of an irregular pentangle. It was completed in the 15th century, along with its 40 towers (20 of which have survived) and 5 fortresses. Within, three streets were laid from north to south and three others from east to west. Thus, fifteen equal blocks were formed with 10 houses in each. Residential buildings around the edges. The Gothic Republic Chancellery and the Bishop's Palace are outstanding among the public buildings.
The main streets are 6 m wide (except the southern street which is 8 m wide) and the side streets are two m wide. The town was entered by two city gates: the Field Gate (Poljska vrata) has a Latin inscription and dates from 1506. The centres of the system are the fortress Veliki kaštio in Ston, Koruna in Mali Ston and the fortress on Podzvizd hill (224 m). Noted artist who work on the walls project are Michelozzo, Bernardino Gatti of Parma and Giorgio da Sebenico (Juraj Dalmatinac).
The city plan of Dubrovnik was used as a model for Ston, but since Ston was built on prepared terrain, that model was more closely followed than Dubrovnik itself. In terms of infrastructure like water mains and sewers built in 1581, Ston was remarkably unique in Europe.
Salt harvested by hand using methods from 1000 years ago
(27 Sep 2009)
Ston, Croatia, September 2009
1. Various of town of Ston and salt mines
2. Various of wall separating pools
3. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Svetan Pejic, Owner of the salt mine (part out of vision):
Due to climate changes and distribution of summer rains in our area, for a third year in a row our salt mine harvesting is late. Mostly, looking at statistic data, harvesting should start June 15th. For the last 20 years, the average amount of collected salt was approximately 2000 tons. In the last three years only 400-500 tons. The best harvest was in the year 1611, 6011 tons, in the times when salt was paid by gold.
4. Various men raking salt from bottom of a pool
5. Wide of workers walking past tracks
6. Wide of workers gathering salt
7. Wide of a train and salt warehouse
8. Wide of a worker preparing train
9. Mid of a worker moving on a train
10. Close up of locomotive engine
11. Mid of a train moving
12. Mid of workers adjusting rails
13. Sun rising
14. Mid of workers moving through a pool
15. Workers gathering salt reflected in pool surface
16. Wide of workers collecting salt
17. Mid of collecting salt into a cart
18. Close up of worker
19. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) no name given, Worker:
It is a bit hot but we can endure it.
20. Close up of legs and shovel
21. Mid of workers
22. Close up of water drain from a wagon with salt
23. Wide of workers pushing wagons
24. Mid of workers pushing wagons
25. Close up of a wagon moving
26. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Svetan Pejic, Owner of the salt mine (partially out of vision):
Experts claim, Ston's salt mine is oldest sea salt mine in Europe, the town of Ston and the walls were established because of salt. The majority of the Dubrovnik Republic's income came from salt. The way that salt was produced before Roman times, in the Dubrovnik Republic, is the same nowadays: in a natural way, with only sea, sun and wind.
27. Various of workers pushing wagons with salt
28. Wide, worker hooking a wagon to be pulled to the warehouse
29. Workers chat as a train moves behind
LEAD IN
In a Croatian town, salt is still being harvested by hand just as it was 1,000 years ago.
The salt works in Ston, a coastal town just north of Croatia's Adriatic pearl, Dubrovnik, are said to date back to Roman times.
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They do it as their fathers did, and their fathers before them, and their forefathers before that, over the centuries.
Salt is harvested by shovel at one of the oldest of the few remaining natural salt works in Europe.
The first written mention of the salt harvest was in 1272 in the Statutes of the Ragusan Republic - a small, independent state around Ragusa, as Dubrovnik was known.
The statutes set strict rules for the production, storage and sale of Ston's salt.
It is Ston Bay's configuration that makes it a perfect place for the harvesting of salt.
The sea flows in, and some of the salty water is caught in pools toward the shore.
As the water moves through the series of pools, it evaporates, helped by dry winds and high temperatures, and becomes saltier.
In the last row of 12 very shallow pools, each named long ago after local saints, salt is ready for collecting.
Today, as with centuries before, workers dig the salt out with shovels and load it onto mine cars that carry it to the warehouse.
For hundreds of years in the Ragusan Republic, which existed until 1808, salt was white gold and Ragusa based much of its prosperity on salt exports to the Turkish empire and elsewhere.
It is believed that the 5.5-kilometre (3.3-mile) stone wall around Ston was built to protect the salt works.
During its heyday at the main collection times, from April to October, the work was compulsory for all residents of Ston and nearby areas.
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Solana Ston Industrial Narrow Gauge Railway at Ston (Croatia)
Industrial Narrow Gauge Railway int the old saltworks at Ston in Croatia.
One of the oldest and largest surviving saltworks in the Mediterranean.
Mali Ston, Croatia - Seashell bay , Oysters
SOLANA STON - The history of the Ston salt-works reaches 4000 years back in the past and makes them the oldest ones in Europe. Since then up to the present time the salt has been produced here in the same tradicional way , only with the help of sea, sun and wind
Spend your holidays in beautiful Croatian city on Adriatic coast - Mali Ston.
Solana Ston Industrial Narrow Gauge Railway at Ston (Croatia)
Industrial Narrow Gauge Railway int the old saltworks at Ston in Croatia.
One of the oldest and largest surviving saltworks in the Mediterranean.
Croatia (Dubrovnik, Mljet, Korčula, Ston) | Drone video in 4K
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Oysters of Ston Croatia
Ston is famous for two things, one of them is quite obvious as the home of the Stone as the word we use today in English, there are a lot of them there trust me. The other a little less obvious is this home to some great Oyster Farms. Produced and Hosted by Percy von Lipinski
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Walls of Ston
After the Republic of Dubrovnik acquired the Pelješac in 1334, it required the protection of Ston. First, in thirty years, one of the longest defense walls in Europe was erected on one side of the peninsula, and according to a unique project, two new towns were planned: southern Ston and northern Little Ston with the aim of encompassing people to preserve the boundaries and work in solanas the state had acquired. Between 1461 and 1464, the Florentine architect Michelozzo commissioned the building of the wall by the order of the Dubrovnik Republic. The Great Wall is 1200 m long, and was built to ensure protection from neighbours. The chronicles state that the construction of the wall lasted for 18 months and cost 12,000 ducats.
The fortress of Ston was one of the largest construction projects of the time, with an original length of 7000 m, consisting of the walls of Ston and Little Ston. The Great Wall consists of three fortresses, and the walls and fortresses are flanked by 10 rounds of 31 squares and 6 semi-circular bastions. The complex defense corps has been shaped over the course of four centuries, due to the development of weapons.
The walls were of great importance because they were defending the saltworks that gave 15,900 ducats every year to the Dubrovnik Republic, the shellfish farm and the city itself.
In 1667, about 0.5 km of walls were destroyed in a catastrophic earthquake, and the walls were significantly damaged in the earthquakes in 1979 and 1996.
In 2004, work on the restoration of obsolete walls was started, with the aim of facilitating visits to the area between Ston and Little Ston. It was assumed that the works would be completed by May 2008, but only the original part of the Ston Bridge was rebuilt. The reconstruction of the Great Wall in Ston, worth about five million kuna (€673,000), was completed, and it was announced that the stone walls with public entrance fee will be opened in May 2009. Part of the wall is open to the public since October 2009 for a fee. Until 2013, the original part of the city, the road have been restored. It takes 15 minutes to get to the first part, and 30 minutes to get from the Great to the Small Wall. Today the greater part of the walls have been restored.
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Easy Panorama Stitching Experience - Pole Panorama Saltworks Ston, 2016
Experimental stitching pole panorama taken with NNSeries 2, straight from Ptgui software
Sea salt harvest in Ston Salt Works, Dubrovnik, 2016.
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THE WALLS OF STON - CROATIA - MAVIC AIR 4K
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WALLS OF STON (Croatia)
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The Walls of Ston are a series of defensive stone walls, originally more than 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) long, that surrounded and protected the city of Ston, in Dalmatia, part of the Republic of Ragusa, in what is now southern Croatia. The Walls of Ston were known as the European wall of China.Despite being well protected by massive city walls, the Republic of Ragusa used Pelješac to build another line of defence.[3] At its narrowest point, just before it joins the mainland, a wall was built from Ston to Mali Ston.[3] Throughout the era of the Republic, the walls were maintained and renovated once they meant to protect the precious salt pans that contributed to Dubrovnik's wealth, which are still being worked today.
Demolition work began on the walls following the fall of the Republic. Later the Austrian authorities took materials away from the wall to build schools and community buildings, and also for a triumphal arch on the occasion of the visit by the Austrian Emperor in 1884. The wall around Mali Ston was demolished with the excuse that it was damaging the health of the people. The demolition was halted after World War II.The wall, today 5.5 kilometre long wall links Ston to Mali Ston, and is in the shape of an irregular pentangle. It was completed in the 15th century, along with its 40 towers (20 of which have survived) and 5 fortresses. Within, three streets were laid from north to south and three others from east to west. Thus, fifteen equal blocks were formed with 10 houses in each. Residential buildings around the edges. The Gothic Republic Chancellery and the Bishop's Palace are outstanding among the public buildings.
The main streets are 6 m wide (except the southern street which is 8 m wide) and the side streets are two m wide. The town was entered by two city gates: the Field Gate (Poljska vrata) has a Latin inscription and dates from 1506. The centres of the system are the fortress Veliki kaštio in Ston, Koruna in Mali Ston and the fortress on Podzvizd hill (224 m). Noted artist who work on the walls project are Michelozzo, Bernardino Gatti of Parma and Giorgio da Sebenico (Juraj Dalmatinac).[4]
The city plan of Dubrovnik was used as a model for Ston, but since Ston was built on prepared terrain, that model was more closely followed than Dubrovnik itself. In terms of infrastructure like water mains and sewers built in 1581, Ston was remarkably unique in Europe.
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Ston - Salt production
Ston - Salt production
3 Reasons To Visit Ston In Croatia
Croatia most famous for Dubrovnik however it's so much more of an exciting destination in our opinion and experience. A great way to experience and enjoy locally is to organise a day tour.
A visit to the vineyards of the Peljesac Peninsula organised by Insiderholidays includes a visit to the town of Ston. It's famous for its great wall and its saltworks the oldest in Europe. Ston is a medieval town with loads of character. The tour also includes visits to local wineries and opportunity to local degustations.
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