It is believed that the brothers wearing an ancient Illyrian name the deer, the cult of its prehistoric inhabitants of the animal. Life is built on cattle, olive growing and fishing. At the end of XVIII. Century, there were more than 500.00 olives, and the late XIX. century, more than 12,000 acres of vineyards. However, grapevine diseases and phylloxera peronospora which encompassed the Dalmatian vineyards and the First World War forced a number of Bracana on emigration from the island to Australia, North and South America.
In the early Renaissance era re-open the ancient quarries near Pucisca in which during the Renaissance and Baroque masonry educate the whole dynasty, to the present time. With George Dalmatian, Andrija Alesi and Nicholas of Florence in the quarries themselves are carved by dozens of other stonemasons. High quality stone has enabled the creation of a number of great buildings, the old Christian, from the Renaissance and the Baroque era to the lush island of Brac XIX. century, when the island more than anywhere in Dalmatia fostered a sense of harmony and composition of architectural masonry and modest houses. In the twentieth century, Korcula stone was used in the Budapest Parliament, Trogir Reichstag in Berlin, a kind of building stone to the White House in Washington.
Today Brac - perhaps with najkonstruktivnijim, najradišnijim and most economical population requires new ways of development, based mostly on tourism, which opens the entire island with an extraordinary variety of landscapes, which makes it unique cultural, historic and natural areas.
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