Fjera Sv. Duje - Sudamja nekad i danas
St. Duje Fair - Sudamja

Summary/Abstract: St. Duje fair — Sudamja, has continued to exist as a traditional gathering when people from surrounding districts of the countryside around Split and interior used to bring for sale essential every-day tools, household and agricultural appliances. People from nearby islands used to come mainly to purchase goods, however all of them enjoyed a chance to meet and chat with each other and entertain themselves together. Different historic and cultural conditions and circumstances throughout the bygone centuries had an effect on an uneven intensity of holding such festivity. The economic importance however, of such market activity in Split, the largest among several others, has been able to attract a great number of visitors and intensify the activity of their customs and plays. This fair always had an explicit social importance and achievement of urban and rural cultural expression. Citizens of Split, generally as onlookers and buyers, promenading expressed customs of their social standing as well as hinterland peasants by group dancing and singing. The present day St. Duje fair continues to exist as an medley of tradition and modern way of life, demonstrate it by selling earthenware and plastic souvenirs on the same place».

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