Poreč

This sculpture is made on a rock on the beach of Poreč-south (also called “naftaplin”) and is a Cross of Lorraine with an anchor. The same symbol has The Free French Sailors during WW2.

On a naval memorial  in  Greenock (Scotland).is the following inscription: “This Monument is Dedicated To The Memory Of The Sailors Of The Free French Naval Forces Who Sailed From Greenock In The Years 1940-1945.

A relation between this sculpture and the symbol of the Free French Naval Force is not yet found.

 

Place: Naftaplin – Poreč

Name: Lorraine cross

Glagolitic Alley

Between 1977 and 1983 the Croation sculptor Zelimir Janes constructed on the road between Roč and Hum 11 symbolic stone markers.  These sculptures symbolically mark the persons and events connected with the roots and the preservation of the Slavic literacy.

The sculptures represent: the Column of the Cakavian Assembly, the table of Cyril and Methodius, the Chair of St. Clement from Ohrid, the Glagolitic Lapidarium, the George of the Croation Lucidar, the Belvedere of Grgur from Nin, the Acent of the Land Boundaries, the Wall of Istrian Protestants and Heretics, the Resting Place of Juraj Zakan, the Monument to Resistance and Freedom, and the Hum City gate embellished with twelve medaillons symbolically displaying the months of the year.

 

Place: Road between Roč and Hum