Lubenice

Lubenice is an ancient fort city on the island of Cres, Croatia that was founded approximately four thousand years ago on top of a 380 m high ridge that overlooks the Adriatic Sea.[1] It is a small local center that comprises forty buildings and seven permanent inhabitants.[2] Buildings in the city are mainly constructed out of the same material as the surrounding cliffs, a lesser part dates back to a former settlement of ancient Romans.[3] There are two well-preserved extant city gates on the North and South of the city as well a wall in the East.

It was nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005.[2]

See also
  • Tentative list of World Heritage Sites in Croatia

Notes and references
  1. Barbir, F. & Ulgiati, S. (2008), Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption: Benefits, Springer, ISBN 1-4020-8493-5
  2. Lubenice - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
  3. Das Dorf Lubenice auf der nordkroatischen Insel Cres. Marcel Meier, ETH Zürich, 1997, 2015.10.31 called Archived 2015-08-13 at the Wayback Machine

Bibliography
  • Barbir, F. & Ulgiati, S. (2008), Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption: Benefits, Springer, ISBN 1-4020-8493-5

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