Kamenice

Posude izdubljene u kamenim blokovima, tisućljećima su se u Sredozemlju, pa i na našim obalama, koristile za pohranu i čuvanje ulja. Izrađivale su se u razlipitim dimenzijama pa i vrlo velikim, a meštar - klesar je bio plaćen onom količinom ulja koja stane u kamenicu. Za neke iznimno velike kamenice, često se naraštajima u jednoj obitelji prenosila priča o "toj i toj" godini, kad su masline toliko rodile da je čak i najveća kamenica bila puna do vrha. Bilo je slučajeva da su takve kamenice unesene u buduću konobu prije negoli je do kraja zazidana - jer ne bi mogle proći kroz vrata - ili čak da su prevožene morem vezane između dviju gajeta.

Na ovom je mjestu, donacijom mještama, deponiran veći broj kamenica, njih 26, koje više nisu trebale njihovim vlasnicima. Tijekom desetljeća, njihov je broj iz različitih razloga smanjen. 

Kamenice su danas više - manje izgubile svoju izvornu funkciju, no svojom prirodnošću, toplinom i patinom starine, trajno ostale neodvojiv dio duše, kolektivne memorije i identiteta mediteranskog težaka, svjedočeći o tisućama godina teškog života na kršu. Stoga će nas kamenice napravljene od samog tog tvrdog krša i napunjene njegovim plodovima, uvijek držati čvrsto vezane uz zemlju iz koje smo ponikli.

Vessels carved in stone blocks have been used for thousands of years in the Mediterranean, and even on our shores, to store and store oil. They were made in different dimensions and even very large, and the master stonemason was paid with the amount of oil that fits in the oyster. For some extremely large oysters, the story of “this and that” year was often passed down through the generations in one family, when the olives bore so much that even the largest oyster was full to the brim. There were cases when such oysters were brought into the future tavern before it was completely walled up - because they could not pass through the door - or even if they were transported by sea tied between two gajets.

At this place, with a donation to the locals, a large number of oysters were deposited, 26 of them, which their owners no longer needed. Over the decades, their numbers have declined for a variety of reasons.

Today, oysters have more or less lost their original function, but with their naturalness, warmth and patina of antiquity, they have permanently remained an inseparable part of the soul, collective memory and identity of the Mediterranean farmer, testifying to thousands of years of hard life on karst. Therefore, oysters made of this very hard karst and filled with its fruits will always keep us firmly attached to the land from which we originated.