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Dry stone walls (suhizidovi or gromace), these structures were built without mortar to hold the stones in place. Instead, they were stacked and fit snugly together like puzzle pieces. The technique is centuries old – and so are most of the walls. Those dividing parcels of land on the Stari Grad Plain, one of Croatia’s seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites, were built as early as the 4th century BC.
Many of the walls in Dalmatia, where the land is filled with rocks and rubble, were built out of agricultural necessity. Farmers painstakingly picked rocks out of the soil to clear space to grow olive trees and grapevines. They then used the rocks to construct walls around geometric plots, creating, in some cases, a grid that stretched for kilometers.
