Koločep
Quiet car-free island of pre-Romanesque churches and a stone-recorded legend of collective village justice.
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This guide to Kolocep, a car-free island near Dubrovnik, opens with a plaque on the promenade recording a strange act of collective justice, tied to a Ragusan-era legend of a nobleman who wronged a local bride known as Kalamotezica. It follows the Republic of Dubrovnik's Senate as it investigated his death and could not settle on a single culprit to punish, then widens out to the island's two quiet hamlets and its eleventh and twelfth-century churches, including Saint Nicholas and the Holy Trinity. Stand on the waterfront where the old verdict is still remembered, among churches built in the same centuries the island's captains sailed the Adriatic.
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