This is definitively the kind of tour history lovers are looking for, we will feel as going back in time once we step into Prcanj village. As many other villages along the shores of Kotor bay who based their economy on maritime activities, shipping and skilled seamen. Prcanj is best know for being the birthplace of captain Ivo Visin (1806) the first South Slav who circumnavigated the work with his ship "Splendido" We will visit the fully preserved Prcanj monastery built in the 18th century dedicated to St. Nicholas. the only last preserved of its kind in Montenegro. which exhibits and extremely valuable collection of votive painting of Sailors from Prcanj. This Franciscan monastery has an extensive and rich library where you can make ink and parchment using real historical raw materials and apparatus, and then write a letter using a goose pen! You could make your souvenir on the printer made by the printer Makarije on Obod and Andrija Paltašić in Venice, on a press designed by Johannes Gutenberg 15th century Attend many activities in this museum, such as making natural paints and dyes for cloth from various plants, wove sailor's rope, ground grain on a hand-held grain, and even lit a fire using flint, stone, and hearth. These activities are suitable for families, but also as coffee breaks during the conferences. From sword holding and learning different historical types of fencing to medieval knight's armor try-out, from the minting of authentic medieval money learning how to use a bow and arrow in the large yard behind the monastery. |
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Best experience for families with children and history loversHere we will be able to immerse into the medieval lifestyle of the Bay having the opportunity to test either the skills offer at their medieval museum which goes as follows:
1. Civil skills (those who work :: minting medieval money, knitting ropes, lighting fires, making antique ink, grinding grain. 2. Monastic skills (those who pray): news, printing with a medieval printing press, writing with quill, feather and ink. 3. Noble skills (those who fight)in the large monastery courtyard guest are tested in fencing with authentic swords, archery, the bearing of knightly and other types of armor, and some other interesting medieval very day skills. Your experience will last approximately around 3 hours and could be combine with wither your walking tour of Kotor or a speedboat tour of our Bay or we could customized your tour according to your needs. |
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