Professional paper

Three significant builders of Lika historical roads

Joso Vrkljan orcid.org/0000-0002-9076-6872 ; Veleučilište Nikola Tesla u Gospiću
Luka Štern ; Veleučilište Nikola Tesla u Gospiću

Abstract

During the Military Frontier, many important roads were built in the Lika area
which are still in use today, and they capture attention with the quality of construction,
skilled design solutions and interpolation into space. Extremely professional
roadbuilders of that time made roads that, with some reconstruction, are still in use
today. The paper presents short biographies of three prominent builders of historic
roads in Lika: Vinko Struppi, Josip Filip Vukasović and Josip Kajetan Knežić, about
whom so far it has been written mostly rarely, modestly and individually.
With representation of these builders, this paper also presents a description of
new technologies that were introduced in road construction and their importance
for the construction of modern road infrastructure in Lika.

Keywords

roadbuilders; Josip Filip Vukasović; Josip Kajetan Knežić; Vinko Struppi.

Hrčak ID:

278904

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/278904

Publication date:

8.6.2022.

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