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Glagolitic Alley


Glagolitic Alley (Croatian: Aleja glagoljaša) is a memorial composed of a string of eleven outdoor monuments dotting the road between the villages Roč and Hum in Croatia. Sculptures were erected between 1977 and 1985 to honor the historical Croatian scribal tradition in Glagolitic script. The road is seven kilometers long.

Idea for the memorial was conceived by a writer Zvane Črnja, while the individual monuments themselves were worked out by a sculptor Želimir Janeš and a literary historian Josip Bratulić. Alley shows the path of Istrian, Croatian and Slavic Glagolitic tradition, illustrating the centers of Croatian Glagolitic medieval literature in Istria, suggesting its Slavic roots and literacy and its continuity from the 11th century to the present day.

The memorial is composed of eleven individual monuments, ten of which are made of stone, and one (City Gate) made of copper. The monuments appear along the road as following:

(1) Column of the Chakavian People's Assembly

(2) Table of Cyril and Methodius

(3) Assembly of Clement of Ohrid

(5) Gorge of Croatian Lucidarius

(6) Viewpoint of Gregory of Nin

(7) Rise of the Istrian Code

(8) Wall of Croatian Protestants and Heretics

(9) Resting place of Žakan Juri

(11) Humska vrata

Coordinates: 45°23′30″N 14°02′41″E / 45.3916°N 14.0446°E / 45.3916; 14.0446


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