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Sveti Grgur Otok - Croatian Alcatraz Traditional Cache

Hidden : 7/16/2023
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


(sorry for bad quality pic, but texts are readable enough)


 

Sveti Grgur (Italian: San Gregorio) is an uninhabited island in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea, between Rab and Krk islands. Sv. Grgur was the site of a political prison (then became a women's prison) in communist Yugoslavia from 1948 to 1988. Questo periodo è detto anche Informbiro, caratterizzato dal conflitto e scisma con l'Unione Sovietica di allora. Informbiro è il corrispettivo nome jugoslavo per il Cominform, abbreviazione per "Ufficio d'informazione comunista".

From far, on a hill of Otok Sveti Grgur, you could see the 4 letters T, I, T, O stamped on the ground.


 

The cache
It's a little black container with only a logbook. I please ask all geocachers, to try to maintain it, since I don't think I will come here again in the next years... Maybe it could last some paper to substitute the logboog once a while :) Thanks from now.

See this video, captured by myself exploring the walls of shame. At 3.33 you will see the cache's hiding place
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18p02xjiN16VaZuTloXZQ9XYzlr1WVDoD?usp=sharing

I also leave some pics of our stay on the island:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Z4qqmRp48-wA--XmmcI0tFVhA7227aHx?usp=sharing


 

Some links to know more about the island

in italian language
https://www.giorgioperlasca.it/i-campi-di-concentramento-di-tito/ 
http://www.storiain.net/storia/goli-otok-il-gulag-di-tito/ 
https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1992/06/27/scoperto-il-gulag-di-tito.html 
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodo_Informbiro

in  english language
https://www.myistria.com/en/sv-grgur-goli-otok-a-detour-to-the-dark-side-of-croatian-history
https://croatiaundiscovered.info/en/blog/croatian-alcatraz/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informbiro_period


 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

3.33 - frr sbbgntr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)