VILLAGE SETTLEMENTS (RURAL UNITS)

Older setlements of District Mošćenička Draga are situated further from the sea on the eastern slopes of Učka. Numerous smaller villages and hamlets which abound in the traces of their existence from as early as the late-antique - early-medieval period are turned towards their urban centres: Brseč or Mošćenice. The whole area of Brseč and Mošćenice is therefore interlaced with paths and roads leading from these hamlets towards the sea. Today these villages don`t have many inhabitants, but they still keep the important part of the history of this region. Former inhabitants lived and depended on the land and cattle as well as the other mountain areas. They built garden beds of deposited land and encircled them in fences, fenced in the land in karst valleys for wine grape, corn and domestic food, cultivated meadows and erected shelters for the cattle and hay near them and near the water sources (puddles). Their house plots consisted of a house and a barn for the cattle and a stone cistern. The villages developed on the slopes or at the edge of the field, so as to leave as much cultivating land as possible. The land, pasture lands and shelters meant the everyday living in these areas.

Today`s stone houses are one- or two-storey residences (once they had a hearth on the ground-floor), exterior staircase with a small access room with or without a minor roof placed on wooden or stone columns. Today the old edifices are being adapted and turned into holiday houses.

Cultural-Historical Heritage, Archeological Localities, Ethno-Zones And Ethno-Monuments Mošćenička Draga Brseč Village Settlements (Rural Units)

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