Rovinj Gets the Wind Rose and Old Crafts Workshop
Quite a number of townsfolk, representatives of the Town, and tourist and cultural staff gathered on Mali mol to attend the opening ceremony for the urban sculpture called the Wind Rose. The bronze cast was made by the academic sculptor Andrija Milovan after the original commissioned by Count Georg Hueterott, which is set on a table on the castle terrace on Crveni otok, while the stone part was conceived by the architect Riccardo Paliaga.
The Wind Rose is around two meters in diameter, and the winds blowing in Rovinj, their names easily readable from it, are written in the standard Croatian and Italian languages, and the Rovinj dialect.
Next to the Wind Rose, on Ulica sveti Križ, the Old Crafts Workshop has been opened, containing over a hundred carpentry items and tools.
Thanks to the donation made by the Grbac brothers – Dušan, Davor and Nelo – who have donated their family legacy left by their father Marijan, uncle Lionell, and two grandfathers Tommas and Anton (all of them carpenters) to the town, Rovinj obtained this unique collection, the oldest items in it dating back to the year 1911, while some items were brought in from Peru in the early 1930s.
The special ambience at the opening ceremony for the Old Crafts Workshop was provided by the wagon-maker Giuseppe Vranich who demonstrated how a drawn wagon is made.
