🏛️ Stari Grad Plain

Stari Grad Plain is a plain on the Croatian island of Hvar, added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2008. It is one of the best-preserved ancient Greek land-use systems in the Mediterranean, where fields are still worked as they were two thousand years ago.

In 384 BC Greeks from the island of Paros founded a settlement here. They divided the fertile plain into even rectangular plots, surrounded by stone walls. This system of land use survives to this day. Grapes, olives and other crops were grown on the plots, and this continues.

Stari Grad belongs to the topic of UNESCO heritage and wine, since vines have grown here since ancient times. Its link to ancient Greece is the field boundaries that remain from those days. The island of Hvar lies in Croatia, in the Balkans. For visitors it is a chance to see an ancient landscape and taste local wine. The island is known for lavender, olive oil and vineyards.