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Pucišca is a community on the island of Brac in the
Split-Dalmatia County. The community is situated in the NE part
of the island, approximately over the Brac channel from the city
of Omiš, some 30 km SE of Split.
The town of Pucišca is in a deep well protected natural
harbour and as such it was early developed as a fishing port. The
information I received from Nikša pl. Kušcic from
Pucišca, based on the ministy approval of the symbols
earlier adopted by the community assembly (Rješenje
Ministarstva pravosuda, uprave i lokalne samouprave, Zagreb, 9.
rujna 2002. godine).
The Coat of Arms of Pucišca is: gules
thrteen towers argent massoned sable, three, two, three, two and
three. The flag is yellow with the coat of arms in the middle.
The Ceremonial Flag is pale yellow gonfalon
with three rectangular tails and fringe along the bottom edges,
with the coat of arms in the middle, the name of the community in
two arches above it and motto in a arch below it. In the tails
there are ornaments of vine, olive and oak branches. The motto
could be translated as "Drop by drop wears away the
stone." or maybe more literaly "Frequent drop wears
away the stone."
Željko Heimer, 3 October 2004
The symbols were designed by the Heraldic
Art d.o.o. from Rijeka.
Željko Heimer, 3 November 2007
The official web site of the community includes a page
on the symbols where a nice background story explains them:
Quoting from some history (my translation):
"... When calmer times arrived after 1420, the inhabitants
desced from the highlands of the Brac island in the Pucišca
bay. The inhabitants of the Pucišca valley, who had houses
away from the sea, now raise them at the very coast, but after
1462 when the danger from Turks, who yb then ruled the Neretva
river and the coatslands, increased, they could not think of
retreating to their original villages of Praženice and
Straževik. The town was already formed, and one had to
consider defence. Therefore the Pucšca man raised the
castles. Thirteen forts, some of which are preserved until today,
got them the nick name the Port of Towers. In the
Venetian documents of 1600's they are called Castrum. No
other place on Brac was so fortified..."
The motto from the ceremonial flag is also explained - it was the
motto of the Croatian Congress (Hrvatski skup), the first library
established on the island in 1868. The oak ornament supposedly
represent the holm oak or the holly oak, Quercus Ilex, (although
the ornament does look much like the common oak found in other
Croatian gonfalons), together with vine and olive trees
considered the "most frequent" trees of Pucišca.
Not stated on that page, we should also note that Pucišca is
the centre of the stone-masonry industry on Brac - widely known
and centuries old - most of the monumental stoneworks including
cathedrals in Adriatic area (and according to some, also the
White House in Washington DC) were built from the Brac stone. The
white somne-masoned towers in the coat of arms should remind to
that as well.
Željko Heimer, 28 August 2009
image by Željko Heimer, 3 October 2004
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image by Željko Heimer, 3 October 2004