Grabov Rat,

the peninsula

Grabov Rat [pronounced 'graabov raht' in Croatian] is a small peninsula on the southern shore of the island of Brač [braach], Croatia, around 2 km eastwards of the city of Bol. [MAP]  It can be approached on land by a dirt road,  rough and narrow, or by sea if you don’t mind scrambling over some rocks.

Three rather small dwellings, cottage type, approx. (6x8) meters outer dimensions, were built on the peninsula from 2001 to 2003. They were built in a local tradition of small auxiliary agricultural shelters called "pojata"   [poyahtaa]. Our pojata is the most inland one, some 150 m from the shore. [PHOTO]

Grabov Rat,

the website

The bottom of this page contains a scan of the earliest known text in Croatian language on the island of Brač . It was chiseled in year 1184, in Croatian Cyrillic, an old Slavic script,  into a church marble doorframe (lintel) in the city of Povlja. The part scanned for this page reads:

“I, master named Radonja, built this portal to please God”.

I believe this website will be an information portal to a piece of land, the cottage and the garden on the Grabov Rat peninsula, which became an emotional perception of my homeland Croatia.