'The Mysterious Yard'
Inner yards of old buildings are always interesting to take a look at. Sometimes they are just beautiful and sometimes there is a secret or two to be uncovered there. If the place is private, the door is usually locked. It is safe to assume this one is open to the public.
I find wine grape climbing its way to the upper floor. It is winter and the plant is sleeping but I am able to imagine it full of grapes at the end of summer. Even so, I didn't expect to find one here. Check out where it grows from.
Further down, in the back of the yard, I find an old stone tablet. It is really big and thick. I recognize it. This is a stone carving found on island Krk. Bašćanska ploča is the name of the original artefact from the end of 11th century or beginning of the 12th. Its importance lies in the fact that this is the oldest written word 'Croat'. It is mentioned in the sentence: "... the land which Zvonimir, the Croatian king, gave..." The Croatian King of the era, Zvonimir gave the land to the Church and it was written down in stone.
This was written in the old Croatian alphabet called Glagolitic. It has nothing to do with Russian Cyrillic nor Latin alphabet. Sadly, Croatians do not use it for centuries nor we learn it in schools, even though it's not hard at all. However, it is still being used for tattoo inscriptions that might intimidate the uninitiated. :D
The clock on the wall. Human restraints. Running on other people's schedules. Actual belief in the existence of time. The more one acknowledges the fourth dimension, the more one gets influenced by its dark boons. But, it looks really nice up there, doesn't it?
The inner yards hide weird things, I tell ya! :)
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