Description
In the heart of Herzegovina, northwest of Mostar, there are the remains of another pearl of late antique sacral architecture in our country. The single-nave basilica with three apses at the location of Crkvina in Cim is an unusual legacy of architectural and cultural-historical heritage in the Neretva Valley.The existence of a sacral object has already been pointed out by accidentally discovered finds of a fragment of a lintel depicting a peacock back in 1900, and the assumptions about the late antique basilica were confirmed by systematic archaeological research in the period from 1966 to 1969 under the leadership of archaeologist Tomislav Anđelić and the Museum of Herzegovina. Due to its characteristic architectural base, the basilica in Cim is an exceptional and unique example of late antique architecture, compared to several dozen Bosnian-Herzegovinian early Christian basilicas known to this day.
Location
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Cim, Bosnia and Herzegovina