A first!!!! Slavko and I left at 8 this morning for the old, old village of Dol. Dol lies in an agricultural valley not far from the sea, surrounded by huge stony hills. It also boasts no less than 3 of the island's 1000 year old churches that I have been casually pursuing for the past 10 years. We climbed through late summer like weather up and down two mountainsides, over loose stone pathways, through fields of wild mint and ancient olive trees, to find the ruins of the 10 th century Sv. Vid (a reference to the Slav pagan god Vid), the 9th century church of Sv. Michael, which has a Roman sarcophagus as a door frame, and the 11 th century church of Sv. Petar, well maintained in the old graveyard of the village. Three pre-Romanesque churches in a single, lovely, sweating day! Slavko brought just a taste of rakija to celebrate our triumph on the mountaintop.
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