Croatia - Primošten Vineyards

The site of Bucavac Veliki is located 3km south of the town of Primošten. It encompasses a surface of 18,4 ha (184,000m2). The site zone is divided into 56 geodesic land lots of which the largest is 2 x 6 m in size and which are mutually separated by drystone walls. The lots are made up of red soil in which a few vines are planted while low drystone heaps keep the soil together around them. Rows of these small soil lots rising vertically from the sea shore are locally called tirades and are positioned in a straight line. Rows of thus positioned tirades make up a rectangular network of lots successively adapted to the coastal line of the locality. Local unpaved paths lead to the lots. This originally rocky, inaccessibly terrain has been transformed through extreme human effort into agricultural land, namely, by its clearing in the traditional manner, (manually) without the use of machines. The Bucavac Veliki site has remained a completely preserved surface as it was at the time it was first developed maintaining the original morphology of cleared lots (cassettes), traditional way of soil cultivation and agricultural function which have not changed in the entire area up to the present.