"Prosek is an established brand that has been produced in these areas for more than two thousand years, " Croatian winemaker Andro Tomic said at his Romanesque winery in Jelsa, a picturesque town on the Adriatic islandofHvar.
After mass on Maundy Thursday before the Christian holiday of Easter, each of six villages on the Dalmatian islandofHvar in southern Croatia sends out a group that will proceed through the other villages in a circle, covering twenty-five kilometres in eight hours before returning home.
At least three distinct traditions of Lace making in Croatia persist today, centred on the towns of Pag on the Adriatic, Lepoglava in northern Croatia and Hvar on the Dalmatian islandof the same name.