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Maritime Museum in Barcelona

Lia Dragojević


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Abstract

The article has described Barcelona as an ancient Mediterranean city with rich maritime heritage. The main part of the article has ben dedicated to recent, two hours' visit to Maritime Museum and its collections as testimony of centuries-old activities of seafarers. Full-size replica of the galley Juan of Austria (in Catalan galera), which took part in victorious Battle of Lepant in 1571.
Other collections have been described, too. Finally, there has been mentioned the engagement of Croats and Dubrovnik on the part of Holy League.
It has been concluded that sea has always been strong, multiple link of the nations of the Mediterranean as well as other seafaring nations od the world.

Keywords

Barcelona; Maritime Museum; replica of galley Juan of Austria; collections of the museums; Battle of Lepant; Croats – Dubrovnik 1571

Hrčak ID:

13171

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/13171

Publication date:

19.6.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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