JADER: '' To the place which our hearts fills we have arrived. I have always been surrounded with a blue mantle from which I used to rise to the surface in the mornings into new dawns and the sound of silent waves singing a song....
Necklace of tides my embrace knitted, with pearls woven from 17 islands and 173 islets, innumerable coves and bays, created thousands of miles touched by sand, stone and salt, having made the most indented coast on the Adriatic and one of the most indented in Europe...
In the middle of sea routes, coming from land to me, Mediterranean waterways joined here with those from the depth of the European continent, which in the days gone by marked the place of a strong maritime foothold. At the time of the Liburnians there was a strong port and even stronger fleet. And fishermen knitted and immersed their nets in the deep blue in the year 995, which presents the first remembrance of fishing trade here...
My coasts encouraged sagens and conduras, old Croatian ships, and my medieval fleet of sailing ships was well-known by far....
Sun rays have always been within reach of my thoughts, but one day it was written down how I saw red. It was in 1861, and it was written by a distinguished priest and linguist Antun Dragutin Parčić, who took a photograph with his camera of a solar eclipse. It was the first photograph of the solar eclipse taken in Croatia, and the fifth in the World...
And the Sun reflection is mirrored by the artist's imagination in the Greeting to the Sun. Around the ring Saint Grisogono's calendar found and encircled the place. Astronomical tables developed exactly in Saint Grisogono's scriptorium in the 13th century. They were of great help to the explorers who set sailed to unknown countries all around the world. Grisogono's tables appeared even two centuries before Micherin's, which Columbus used to discover America...
And we discovered now the biggest instrument in the world – Sea organs, where the melody is created by the sea itself, carried by waves, sea currents, dead calm, scirocco, north-eastern wind, landward breeze.
Splashing the tubes below us, creates harmony, according to its feelings...
When we speak of music I remember the year 1889, when baron Von Trapp, a marine officer, was born here. The story about his numerous family and life, was an inspiration for the famous musical and film ''The Sound of Music''.....
It is difficult to define the moment when the dusk embraces the dawn. It is even more difficult to define the place where their thoughts are exchanged. While the Sun was closing its eyes their desires were fulfilled, and my heart inspired.
Many people crossed its path, in the trace leaving above me, saying not to have seen a more beautiful repose, while to its dreams surrendering. Your eyes are overflown with the most beautiful sunset in the world ...
It was also said by a famous director Alfred Hitchcock walking along my coast in the sixties of the past century....
Tradition has it that the Croatian-Hungarian king Koloman himself, fascinated by the beauty, which appeared before him, got married to the sea, having thrown the ring into it...
And God of the sea himself, Neptune, according to the legend, having fallen in love with the fairy Plankit, at the place where he met her first, and it was right here, built a city, in her honour...
IDASSA: '' At the foot of the bell-tower, by the edge of the cathedral, in the stranger's eyes your glance I recognized.... But the move stops in stone studded – below cathedral..... Only the ship sails carrying the memories, on sleepy waves, which the voice of your song even now can remember....
JADER: ''Sometimes, the whisper of the foam of the waves I hear, spasm of laudes and chorales, silence of the approaching storm getting ready to enter the dreams of the closed shells... And every now and then I see the ship overcoming the high seas, stealing the view to the sun she is in love with...
JADER: ''The way leading through space and time is very long, only a part of remembrances and memories I told you about myself...I was glad and it was my great pleasure ladies and gentlemen, my friends, to be your host... I wish you a pleasant sailing along the decks of my stony ship.... Enjoy in my ancient past and present with the gracious young lady Idassa...together with sounds of music on the biggest instrument in the world, on which the sea is playing for you only....
