GLUSHKI

Glushki

(mounds and hillfort, ancient remains, stećak tombstone, Church of St. Peter and Paul, and traditional architecture)

The town of Glušci is located on the left bank of the Neretva River, in a karst hilly area near a small floodplain. The earliest evidence of settlement in this area comes from stone burial mounds made by filling in unworked stone, and they were used for burying the deceased. The mounds date back to the Bronze and Iron Ages. In addition, in the area of ​​the town, the remains of a Roman settlement and fortification were found as early as the beginning of the 20th century, which are no longer preserved today, and there is also a stone tombstone from the Middle Ages, a stećak built into the wall of the church of St. Peter and Paul. It has a simple relief motif of a cross. The stećak itself was probably brought from one of the nearby necropolises, and can be placed in the period of the 14th and 15th centuries. The most significant monument in Glušci is the church of St. Peter and Paul, whose beginnings date back to the early 18th century, while most of its current appearance dates from the first half of the 20th century. It is a simple single-nave church with a semicircular apse at the back, and on the facade there is a lunette of the portal and a rosette above the entrance door, and a bell tower on a preslic. In addition, the town has preserved numerous examples of traditional residential and economic architecture, some of which are still in use. The main feature is the grouping of several buildings with different functions in the courtyard, the most important of which, apart from the house as a living space, are the stables, kitchens, cisterns and the like, and the main building material is stone, which has begun to be replaced by concrete since the 20th century.