Volosko is mentioned for the first time in 1543 as a part of manorial estate of Kastav, but the settlement is probably older. A famous travel writer J. W. Valvasor mentiones Volosko in his work "Slava vojvodine Kranjske" and depicts it as a "small settlement, but very pleasant". Baroque church with two bell towers was constructed in 1708.

At that time Volosko was under the domination of Kastav. It had a small harbour and a customs office. French occupation (1809-1813) helped the development of Volosko, when Kastav loses its dominant part with the new territorial administration. Volosko gradually takes over its functions.

The first buildings in Volosko were constructed around "Mandrać". Even today that area can be recognized for its irregular plan of narrow communications. Here is where we find the remains of the original layer. Those are small fishermen`s houses with simple facades with small roof houses, picturesque chimneys and hearths with protuberances on external walls.

The building of the settlement follows the configuration of the ground, so that layers of houses in a thick line amphitheatrically descend towards the inlet. This dense, thick building on a steep ascending ground creates picturesque and valuable environmental ambiances, meandering streets and stairs between simple houses with small terraces with cisterns and small gardens. A line of houses along the coastline towards the harbour is especially valuable.

Along Marshal Tito Street the houses which predominantly take place there are called «captains` houses». Thew were constructed at the period of the rise of maritime affairs, during the 18th and 19th c., with simple decorations, little roof houses and balconies above entrance doors.

Larger representative structures and summer houses were constructed on the borders of the settlement, on its northeastern and southwestern side at the shift of the 20th c. Some of them were designed by an architect from Vienna Karl Seidl, who designed a greater number of representative villas on this part of the coast.

STA. ANNA`S CHURCH, VOLOSKO

The church was constructed by the beginning of the 19th c., in baroque manner, with two complex bell towers at the front. The apsis is semicircular, vaulted over with a semi-calotte. The main space has a central character, with a cross vaulting. Above the entrance there is a choir supported by pillars and the space below has a cross vaulting. The windows are of «palladina» type. The interior of the left lateral chapel was equipped and decorated by sculptor Ivan Rendić (1910-1911) in art nouveau. In front of the church there is a space in greenery and stairs which lead to it. By the front a paving with stone pebbles is preserved, while the paving of the access part is inadequate and inharmoniously placed. Half-round tiles are on the roof. In 1914 Sta. Anna`s church becomes a parish church.

ST. ROK`S CHURCH, VOLOSKO

The church is mentioned for the first time in 1570 in the will of Rok Zavidić. It is mentioned there that its building was ordered by Ivan Zavidić, Rok`s grandfather. A combination of various historical shapes was created with its reconstruction in 1888. On the front there is a protruding center which ends with a distaff-like bell tower. The apsis is polygonal, with lesenas and it is decorated with a line of hanging arcades beneath the ceiling cornice. On the exterior wall of the apsis there is a niche with a semicircular ending, bearing the sculpture of St. Rok.

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