Eco Heritage Task Force organised by the Croatian Heritage Foundation
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Young expatriates, members of this year’s Eco Heritage Task Force organised by the Croatian Heritage Foundation, stayed in Rovinj for the past three weeks, and were welcomed by the Town Tourist Board. And during the few weeks of their stay they w
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Employees of the communal services acquainted the youth coming from some fifteen world countries with the work out in the open, and they also enabled the necessary tools and clothes. His share of commitment to campaign success was given as well by the Heritage Museum curator, Damir Matošević, who lectured the expatriate youths on the history of the settlement, where people lived in densely packed houses from 1800 to 1200 BC.
Thirty students of Croatian origin coming from Mexico, Canada, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Australia, USA, Bulgaria, South Africa, Macedonia, Chile, Vojvodina, Argentina and Hungary, along with working on Monkodonj, got acquainted too with the activities in preserving the historical Rovinj centre. They also used their stay in Istria to visit Hum, Pula, Motovun, Dvigrad and the Glagolitic Alley. Simultaneously, they spent their afternoon time to study the Croatian language, the beginner and advanced courses of which were held by the teacher Sanja Oblučar. They published information on their work through their net workshop too, which was led by Darko Bašić. It is interesting they also set up two interesting exhibitions within this year’s campaign. That is, the exhibition of Jorge Luis Subiabre Matiacho was done in Pula, while the Rovinj Multimedia Centre presented works by the painter Karen Oremuš from Canada.
Thirty students – children, grandchildren and grand-grand-children of Croatian expats distributed along the entire world and gathered within this year’s Eco Heritage Task Force of the Croatian Heritage Foundation thanked their hosts, the employees of the Rovinj Tourist Board, with a programme held in the Multimedia Centre. Along many humorous sketches, they also performed the play written by Slaven Špišić, entitled “MISSION-T”.
It should be pointed out the Task Force was established during the horrible peak of the war in Croatia in 1992, and that expat youth continued holding it in time of peace as well. Because of its aim at cultural and historical sites, the Task Force was prefixed Eco Heritage. So far, successfully completed projects feature Voćin, Gornji Brgat next to Dubrovnik, Skradin, Daruvar, Istria, Plitvice lakes, the island of Galovac by Zadar, the Trsteno Arboretum, Motovun, Zaostrog, Ston, Pula and Bakar, and archaeological sites in Crikvenica, Novi Vinodolski and Hreljin, Kaštela and Bjelolasica, Koprivnica, the County of Karlovac, - and now Rovinj as well.
