In fact, after the Roman Empire, a lot of invasions, the medieval Kingdom of Croatia, a struggle for Dalmatia that lasted centuries between Venice and the Kingdom of Hungary, the Dalmatian coast and the islands passed (until 1797) under the cultural influence and the power of the Republic of Venice.
On the island of Brac where are the most important quarries of the precious stone, you can visit, in Pucisca, the Stone cutter School. This institution, created at the beginning of the 20th century, keeps alive an old craft tradition that assures, as the poet says, that "a thing of beauty is a joy for ever".