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Prdvarić Palace

This Renaissance and baroque one storey house belonging to the Prdvarić family was built in the late 16th century and is situated in the part of Vis known as Kut, close to the sea.

On its northern façade is a long balcony with a stone fence made of unusually stylized adornments which have the appearance of upright and turned stone vases.

The Balcony extends along the entire width of the northern façade. On this façade, above the balcony, is a coat of arms in a Renaissance and baroque frame from the 16th – 17th century, which is the same as the one found above the house door.

There was once a third coat of arms which has now been removed from the house. In the central part of the coat of arms, which is divided by a belt broken under the right corner, there are three stars whilst on the upper side of the belt, there is a half-moon. On top of the coat of arms is the head of an angel.

Carved flowers and the small figure of a naked woman with a ribbon like the allegory of Happiness can be found at the pediment of the south wall of the palace .

On the ground floor there was once a tavern, whilst on the first floor there is a central hall situated between side rooms which are entered through a door with profiled stone frames. In the hall covered by a wooden ceiling that relies on stone consoles, there is a profiled well's crown and a large walled in basin with two stone shelves on side consoles decorated with lilies whilst at the bottom there is a grotesque mask in relief. Grotesque masks are typical decorations of Dalmatian wall basin from the 16th – 18th century.

Prdvarić Palace is a delightful example of rural architecture.