Toš – olive mill, is a single-storey structure having just one room, constructed in rough stone bound with earth and lime, with a gable roof covered with half-round tiles. The interior of the building consists of a mechanism for the crumbling of olives, mechanism for the pressing of the mass, and a hearth situated in the apse.
The structure is, according to its construction, form, and function, a typical example of a traditional popular architecture that developed on the turn of the 19th c., but according to the criterion of the culture continuity from the time of Graeco-Roman cultural-historical strata and influences. As such it witnesses the olive-growing culture on the island of Krk and olive-growing culture in north-Adriatic and Mediterranean cultural region.
Dobrinj District
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