Stari Grad Plain, Croatia - UNESCO World Heritage Site

 Place: Stari Grad Plain, Croatia

Weather: Partly cloudy, 64/77F.

Route: From Split 48 km SSE on ferry and D116.

Significance: Stari Grad Plain is an agricultural landscape outside the town of Stari Grad. It was first turned into agricultural fields by the Greeks in the 4th century BC. The land was rocky - the Greeks used these rocks to build walls and stone shelters that are still in use today.

Website: UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Aerial view of the fields on a grid network, mostly unchanged since the Greeks (from whc.unesco.org)

One of the stone shelters built by the Greeks 2,400 years ago (from whc.unesco.org)