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Monument to the Sun or The Greeting to the Sun (Croatian: Pozdrav suncu) is a monument in Zadar, Croatia dedicated to the Sun.It consists of a 22-meter diameter circle representing the Sun, with three hundred, multi-layered glass plates placed on the same level as the stone-paved waterfront, with photovoltaic solar modules underneath.
An anonymous chronicle from 1344 exhorts the people of the city of Zadar to sing and dance circle dances for a festival while in the 14th and 15th centuries, authorities in Dubrovnik forbid circle dances and secular songs on the cathedral grounds. [33]
Croatian dance varies by region, and can be found in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia. The traditional kolo is a circle dance , a relatively simple dance common throughout other Slavic countries in which dancers follow each other around the circle.
Circle dance, or chain dance, ... A chronicle from 1344 urges the people of the city of Zadar to sing and dance circle dances for a festival. However, ...
Zadar (US: / ˈ z ɑː d ɑːr / ZAH-dar, [3] [4] Croatian: ⓘ), [5] historically known as Zara [6] (from Venetian and Italian, pronounced; see also other names), is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Croatia. It is situated on the Adriatic Sea, at the northwestern part of Ravni Kotari region.
Kolo (Serbian: Коло) is a South Slavic circle dance, found under this name in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia. It is inscribed on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage for Serbia. [1] Hungarian communities were also influenced by the tradition, where a similar dance is known as Kalala. [2]
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They form a circle, a single chain or multiple parallel lines. [176] According to Wilkes (1995), the kolo has an Illyrian origin as the dance seems to resemble dances depicted on funeral monuments of the Roman era [177] Malo kolo – is an old traditional dance from the Vojvodina region of Serbia, and far beyond