Kras is a village of a scattered (open) type, situated in Dobrinj area. It consists of autonomous house plots, encircled with drystone walls, together with residential structures and outhouses, as well as several spatial units interpreted with lines of houses. The typical spatial element are the detached outhouses and residential structures established on fertile lands and near by the pasture lands.
This kind of space organization implies the original sheperd`s and cattle-breeding locality of Dobrinj`s cultural circle to which the settlement belongs. This is the area of the oldest Slavic migrations to the island of Krk, so that after the founding of Croatian Dobrinj earlier than the 11th c., Dobrinj`s locality of Kras arises as a village already in the 13th c.
The architectural features of the settlement are represented by a stone house of a bungalow type or a two-storey type, consisting of one or more rooms, with a gable roof covered with half-round tiles. The typical building element are the ceilings on the entrance to wine cellars, i. e. the external staircase on the vaulting with an entrance to the upper room of the structure. The appearance of vaultings in the settlement and the appearance of the so-called guvno – threshing floor, represent the architectural significance of Kras. The architectural features are connected to the cattle-breeding and agricultural economy of the settlement. It is also scattered over a bigger exploitation-zone and represents the typical villages of Krk – ethnographic zones. The drystone walls, bordered paths, are of a greater significance for the content of such a spatial relation, and, in addition to guvno and mošune, they are considered to be the sources of a monumental relevance.
Dobrinj District
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