Vrtujak: Gornja Njivica

Otok je golemi kamen u morskoj pučini. I ništa ne obilježava otočanima kao kamen u svoj svojoj surovoj ljepoti. Kroz tisućljeća ljudskog opstanka na našim otocima - pa tako i na Korčuli - kamen je, više od bilo čega drugog, obilježio kulturu i svakodnevnicu svojih žitelja. Ovdje, na grčkoj Korkyri, kamen su vadili stari Grci, potom Rimljani, Venecijanci i Hrvati. Teško je na našem otoku pronaći obitelj koja nije preživljavala od obrade kamena. U njemu su se izražavali vrsnih klesara i kipara naivaca, tih naših pjesnika kamena, kao i svjetski poznati kipari poput Frane Kršinića, Ive i Luje Lozice. Zadivljuje kako su siromašni ljudi ovog otoka imali snažnu potrebu izraziti liriku svoje duše u kamenu. Gradili su skladn, poštujući nagomilano znanje arhitektonske klasike od starogrčkih vremena i s namjerom da njihove kuće, crkve, grobnice, zidovi i rive traju neograničeno, isklesane u vječnom kamenu.

I onda kada su živjeli od obrade zemlje, naši su je stari otimali od kamena - šaku po šaku, mašklin po mašklin, gradeći od kamena stepenaste ogradice u koje bi nasipali škrtu zemlju. Taj kaskadni tip ogradica nerazdvojni je dio ljepote dalmatinskog krajobraza.
U toj ljepoti naše baštine manje je poznata i neistražena arhitektura poljskih kamenih skloništa građenih u suhozidu. Njihova funkcija je bila primarno gospodarska. U njima su se naši težaci sklanjali od kiše, ručali i odmarali, provodili s obitelji više dana, dok se teški težački posao ne završi.
Vrtuljak i toreta svakako su najzanimljiviji u toj kulturi kamena. To su sjajni primjeri gradnje u suhozidu a bez drvenih krovnih konstrukcija, i izraz su intuitivnog poznavanja statike i duše kamena. Odraz su srodne graditeljske tradicije širom Mediterana.

Nigdje kao na hrvatskoj obali ne postoji takva raznolikost tih arhitektonskih oblika.

dr.sc. Mario Nobilo text

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The island is a huge rock in the open sea. And nothing marks the islanders like stone in all its harsh beauty. Throughout the millennia of human existence on our islands - including on Korčula - stone, more than anything else, has marked the culture and everyday life of its inhabitants. Here, on the Greek island of Korkyra, the stone was quarried by the ancient Greeks, then by the Romans, Venetians and Croats. It is difficult to find a family on our island that did not survive from stone processing. Excellent masons and naive sculptors, our stone poets, as well as world-famous sculptors such as Frano Kršinić, Ivo and Luja Lozica expressed themselves in it. It is amazing how the poor people of this island had a strong need to express the lyrics of their soul in stone. They built harmoniously, respecting the accumulated knowledge of architectural classics since ancient Greek times and with the intention that their houses, churches, tombs, walls and waterfronts would last indefinitely, carved in eternal stone.

And then, when they lived from tilling the land, our ancestors took it from the stone - fistful by fistful, mašklin by mašklin, building step fences from stone into which they would pour the scarce earth. This cascading type of fence is an inseparable part of the beauty of the Dalmatian landscape.
Among the beauty of our heritage is the less known and unexplored architecture of Polish stone shelters built in dry stone. Their function was primarily economic. In them, our heavyweights took shelter from the rain, had lunch and rested, spent several days with their families, until the heavy heavyweight work was finished.
The carousel and the turret are certainly the most interesting in that culture of stone. They are great examples of construction in drywall without wooden roof structures, and are an expression of intuitive knowledge of statics and the soul of stone. They are a reflection of related architectural traditions throughout the Mediterranean.

There is no such diversity of these architectural forms as on the Croatian coast.

NAPOMENA: NE UNIŠTAVAJTE SUHOZIDE I SUHOGRADNJU VRTUJAKA!!!!

NOTE: DO NOT DESTROY DRY WALLS AND DRY BUILDING OF THE WHEELS!!!!