Church of Saints John and Paul, Ložišća

The parish church of Saints John and Paul is located in the central part of the village of Ložišća, on the lower edge of Vela banda, in the municipality of Milna. It belongs to Split-Dalmatia County. Visitors can see here a bell tower designed by a famous sculptor.

The main façade ends in a trefoil termination, and is built of regular ashlar. On the main portal is a shallow relief with motifs of rhombuses, a rosette and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and above the profiled cornice the year 1820 is carved. The interior is divided by massive stone columns into three aisles, and the middle one is covered with a flat ceiling with a high cove. North of the church, on raised ground, stands out a neo-style bell tower made in 1888 to a design by the sculptor Ivan Rendić.

The church is a protected cultural good, entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-4332.

Photo: Falk2, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia Commons.
Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: Wikidata (CC0).