Ston
Watercolour and crayon sketch
©2014 Charlene Brown
On June 4 we journeyed from Dubrovnik
to Split , with a stop in the fortified town of Ston Europe . (Yes, Hadrian’s Wall
is the longest.)
The outer wall, shown zig-zagging up to the right in
this painting, goes beyond the ridge and extends across the entire width of the
isthmus of the peninsula on which Ston is situated. This strikes me as the only part of the wall
that makes sense, as it was intended to protect the valuable salt pans at Ston,
as well as acting as a second line of defence for Dubrovnik.
Studying the rest of the wall for the fifteen minutes
it took to start this sketch, I was unable to figure out why it was draped as
it is in the cliffs above the town, so I read up about it when I got home.
I learned it’s laid out in what is described as an ‘irregular
pentangle.’ They didn’t say why.
