The village of Ložišća, island of Brač in Croatia

At the times Venetian and Austro-Hungarian, Ložišća was named in Italian San Giorgio della Brazza (Saint George of Brac).

However, the village is mainly given up, with frontages in ruin and gardens, vines and olive groves left with the abandonment. The village had more than thousand inhabitants at the beginning of the 20th century; there remain only approximately 300 today about it: the cause is the destruction of the vine by the phylloxera.

But, it is especially the spectacular bell-tower, or rather the bell-tower, independent of the church, which one notices since the road. It appears oversize for this modest village and was built - to compete with the close parishes - in second half of the 20th century (1889). Its plans were establish by Ivan Rendić, plus sculptor that architect, in a Renaissance style overloaded enough, with a cover in onion bulb rather little in harmony with Dalmatian traditional architecture. Ivan Rendić would have been active for this project by patrons, the family Nazor de Bobovišća Na Moru; its remuneration for this work would have been 24 bottles of “prošek”, a fine wine of dessert, that which one drank at the imperial court of Vienna.