Distinguishing features of Lastovo architecture are stone houses with imaginative chimneys – called ‘fumar’ (pl. fumari, lat. Fum – smoke, vapor). Why the villagers have been investing – through the centuries - so much effort to build diverse chimneys is still a mystery, but the fact is that it is almost impossible to see two similar fumars (chimneys); especially if you are looking at old houses. Some of them even look like minarets – tall spires with onion-shaped crowns that are features of Islamic mosques.
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Folk show. Where elsewhere carnival (lat. carne levare - taking away of flesh) or shrovetide are just a masked procession and a dotage, Lastovos’ Poklad is real, for centuries preserved, pristine traditional folks show. Everything is held according to old rituals. It all happens in memoriam of when in 1483 AD Katatalani (Katala – mean, devious; common name for Sicilian, Catalans and other mercenaries) planed to attack, pirate and concord Lastovo – at that time a member of Republic of Dubrovnik.


Symbol of freedom. Local legend tells us that Catalan pirates, after unsuccessfully trying to burglarize the town of Korčula, sent a Turkish messenger with the message ‘surrender Lastovo’. Fortunately, the messenger was caught and the storm destroyed the pirates’ fleet.

Perl of Island’s cultural heritage. In memoriam to that day, Lastovians, each year in the Poklade’s Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday) burn away a doll. Poklad traditions are held the same way for over a few centuries as a real, authentic folk show. This is not a contemporary ‘modern time’ dotage; it is a pearl og Islands’ cultural heritage.

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