Church of St Michael, Grohote

The church of St Michael stands in the Šolta field near Grohote. It is interesting as the oldest preserved church on the island of Šolta.

The site is first mentioned in documents in 1398, and the church was built in the Romanesque-Gothic style. It is surrounded by a cemetery enclosed by a stone wall. It is single-nave, with a semicircular apse, correctly oriented, of irregularly hewn stone, with a gabled roof of stone slabs. On the lintel a cross is incised, and above it is a semicircular lunette with an arch of long narrow stones. Inside, medieval Gothic frescoes of a folk, local character have been preserved.

The church is a protected cultural good and is entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-5061.

Photo: Zrinka Radunić, CC BY-SA 3.0 hr, Wikimedia Commons.
Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: DGU (centre of the settlement).