This morning we wandered the streets and steps of the upper town coming across fascinating graffiti, joyful posters of Croatian naive art and stunning stained glass in the Franciscan Church.

After a picnic, bought in the vast Dolac market, we headed for the Meštrović Atelier, a wonderful building, originally the home of the internationally renowned Croatian sculptor, Ivan Meštrović, and now a Museum housing many of his works.

The face of the woman in his sculpture ‘Resting’ (1933) is as peaceful as his ink on paper of the Archangel Gabriel’s face (1917) is serious. As in these two pieces, much of his work appears to express the prevailing signs of the times.