Vela Luka - Croatia
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N 42° 57.748 E 016° 43.012
33T E 640025 N 4758077
Vela Luka is a town and municipality of Dubrovnik-Neretva County in western Croatia. Vela Luka is located on the western side of the island of Korcula at the bottom of a sharply cut and wide bay indented by many coves.
Waymark Code: WM3VYX
Location: Croatia
Date Posted: 05/24/2008
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Vela Luka, together with Blato and Korcula, is one of the three island centres with a developed touristic, industrial and urban infrastructure.
The "Greben" shipyard produces big and small plastic boats, various sailing boats and the fireproof life boats which have a world-wide reputation. The Museum collection is part of the Cultural Centre, an institute which organizes painting exhibitions of native and foreign masters. This collection can be proud of an international gallery of donated paintings, graphics, sculptures, among which especially outstanding is the smaller sculpture by Henry Moore. Also represented here are models of ships from the earliest period up to the present day, archaeological finds, of which the most important are from Vela Spilja - cave (ceramics, stone, tin, bones), and the international collection of mosaics. The painter Anka Sepe-Prizmic exhibits in her gallery paintings of fishermen and farm labourers of this area through history. This life was also made eternal in Sime Vucetic's poems full of Mediterranean life juices. The most impressive of contemporary painters from Vela Luka is Izvor Oreb, who lives in Zagreb, who, with his Dalmatian motives in the postmodernistic style, draws the attention of the public of both Croatia and the World.
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