The Field of Stari Grad as a Cultivated Agricultural Landscape Through History

Sa？etak This paper is trying to reconstruct the cultural landscape of the field of Stari Grad throughout history in regard of its vegetation and agriculture. The landscape was changing according to the needs of those who lived in it. To reconstruct it means to find out the changing needs of people there in various historic periods. Its landscape history may be written also as the history of the economic relationships in the area. While to study the Antique landscape we use archaeologic facts and palaeobotanic analyses, the reconstruction of medieval and modern times landscape is based on documents from Hvar Statute of 1331 and on various documents and travelogues. The field of Stari Grad had always been planted by characteristic Mediterranean cultures, the Mediterranean triad - vine, olive and wheat. Their proportions had influenced the look of the landscape. Vine grape was dominant in the period of 17th - 20th c., and gave the Stari Grad field that specific aspect of tended plain - ？a sea vineyards“. Big changes began in the 1960s, when tourism became dominant economic branch on this island