Radojković Castle, Škrip

Škrip is the oldest settlement on the island of Brač, and on the western edge of its hillfort stands the Radojković Castle. It is interesting to visitors because the Museum of the Island of Brač operates in it, and in its walls layers can be read from prehistory to the modern age. It belongs to the municipality of Supetar in Split-Dalmatia County.

Built into the western wall of the courtyard are huge stone blocks of the Illyrian hillfort, known as the "Cyclopean walls". The complex consists of two single-storey buildings and a three-storey tower in the northwest, beside the enclosed courtyard. The vaulted ground floor of the tower probably originates from an ancient mausoleum or a tower beside the prehistoric rampart. On it a tall tower was built, begun in late antiquity and completed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the time of the Venetian-Ottoman wars. All parts are covered with stone slabs, and water is drained from the roofs by a complex system of stone gutters.

The castle is a protected cultural good, entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-5003.

Photo: Honza Beran, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons.
Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: Wikidata (CC0).