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Engineering Challenge Cup
Sali - Sunday 6 th May
05 th to 12 th of May 2012
Sali is the cultural and administrative center of Dugi Otok. Situated on the north-east coast of the
island, with a thousand years old tradition, according to written documents from 990. From the
ancient times it is called an ante-room to Kornati. It is a place surrounded with natural parks,
thousand years old olive trees, with very rich cultural and sacral inheritance from early centuries of
the Christianity. Beside the splendor parish St. Mary's church, St. Roko's and St. Nikola's church,
there are the ground plans ruins of the Christian churches in Stivanje Polje, Citorija and Čuh.
The place was named after the salt pans that used
to be here. It was mentioned by this name for the
first time in 1105. The parish church of the
Assumption of Mary was built on the site of an
early mediaeval church (remains of fragments with
interlaced ornamentation have been found).
The entrance with its Gothic vault was built by
Master Juraj Lukačević in 1465. The altar was built
in 1584 (there is a Glagolitic inscription above the
door). The impressive main altar (17th century)
features a Baroque altarpiece with a subsequently
attached early Renaissance representation of Our
Lady with Child, attributed to Juraj Čulinović, from
the 15th century. Originally it was part of a
polyptych. The Dead Christ, to the right of the
altar, also belonged to it.
The church of St. Roche was first mentioned in 1644 and was extended in 1855. As far as
Residential architecture is concerned, there are several interesting buildings: the Rančić house, built
in the Renaissance style, two other Renaissance houses (formerly owned by the Gverinis) with the
remains of a large park, and the Baroque Petricioli house from the 17th century.
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