The art of dry construction is officially inscribed in the UNESCO list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This type of construction is characteristic both for the hinterland of Herzegovina and some other parts of Montenegro.
"The skill of dry construction involves processing and stacking stones on top of each other without the use of binding material. The stability of the structure is ensured by careful selection and stacking of stone, and dry construction has shaped various cultural landscapes from prehistoric times to the present day," the decision explains.
Applicants for listing were Croatia, Cyprus, France, Spain and Switzerland.
The Agency for Development and Protection of Orjena reminds that for years it has been organizing dry construction workshops, where together with numerous volunteers and their associations, i.e. clubs, they have worked on the preservation of certain significant buildings of this type, and we have also organized demonstration workshops in Žlijebi, i.e. , participated in the organization of the trip of the Montenegrin Championship in land border construction, as a unique sports-entertainment-educational event.
Mašo Čekić is a journalist and publicist from Tivat who for years has been pointing out the importance of this inherited type of construction, typical for the entire eastern coast of the Adriatic and its mountainous hinterland. He traveled this entire stretch, all the way to Istria, and he knows how much our neighbors are concentrating their efforts to take the land border out of the sphere of history and give it, along with others, a cultural and touristic dimension." Compared to Croatia, Montenegro is very late, but what worries me more is the insufficient attention that the competent institutions are paying to this issue," Čekić said.
"Landscapes are always made in harmony with the environment, and the construction technique strengthens the connection between man and nature. The skill is primarily passed down from generation to generation, depending on the terrain on which it is built," it says, among other things, on the UNESCO website.
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