Stone villages
The south and western part of Lustica, which faces the open sea, is made up of a series of about nine old stone villages that stretch from Madari in the south east to Zabrdje at the western tip of the peninsula.
The main road around the peninsula connects them up like string of whitewashed or sun baked pearls, each with its own small orthodox churches and old stone houses. The villages houses have a defencive formation and were laid out at a time when their peninsula lay outside the (400 year long) Venetian “protection” of the fjord, and were obliged to protect themselves from Pirates and other menaces which scourged the coast.
