Vela Spila

The Vela Spila cave is located above the town of Vela Luka at the island of Kor?ula, in Croatia on Pinski Rat hill at an elevation of approximately one hundred thirty m. The cave includes an elliptically shaped cavern that measures 40 m in period, 17 m in peak, and is about forty m wide. There are, just like the Brillenhohle in Germany, openings within the roof of the cave which have been as a result of fall apart at an as yet undetermined time. Nikola Ostoic changed into the primary person to explain the fall down present day literature. In 1856, he wrote "Compendio Storico Dell Isola Di Curzola". A neighborhood historian, museum commissioner, and collector of antiquities, he visited the fall down 1835.

The cave has been cited in the Korcula Statute back in the fifteenth century. Scientific studies of the cave began within the overdue 1940s. Marinko Gjivoje took up paintings on the site in 1949. In 1951, Marinko Gjivoje, Boris Ilakovac and Vinko Foretic started check excavations and the outcomes have been allowed the idea to proceed. Based on these findings, Grga Novak determined to in addition excavate so that you can verify the caves hyperlinks with the island of Hvar.