Sundials by counties
Bjelovar-Bilogora (4) Brod-Posavina (3) Dubrovnik-Neretva (25) City of Zagreb (20) Istria (30) Karlovac (5) Koprivnica-Križevci (8) Krapina-Zagorje (13) Lika-Senj (6) Međimurje (9) Osijek-Baranja (13) Požega-Slavonia (2) Primorje-Gorski Kotar (29) Šibenik-Knin (6) Sisak-Moslavina (13) Split-Dalmatia (52) Varaždin (18) Virovitica-Podravina (17) Vukovar-Syrmia (1) Zadar (9) Zagreb (18)
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Interesting facts
- Roman Pantheon is built on principles of a sundial
- Very old sundial discovered in Ukraine, link
- many historic buildings are precisely oriented so that the Sun illuminates shrines on specific dates
(Maklavun in Istria, Stonehenge, Abu Simbel...)
- in Bible, prophet Isaiah calls upon God and he makes the shadow of Akhaz sundial to go back 10 degrees (Second book of kings, 20,7-11)
- first sundial was made probably in Egypt in 15th century BC
- on Dinara mountain (Croatia) there is a rock called Samograd, a natural sundial used by locals to tell time
- in Zagreb, there was a sundial on St. Marco Church built in 1588
- in Nin, curch of the Holy Cross from 9th century served also as a sundial
- in Novi Sad (Serbia) there is a sundial made from flowers
- in Alexandria (Egypt), there is a park with flower sundials
- in Macchu Picchu (Peru) there is a rocky sundial (damaged during filming)
- in Travnik (Bosnia and Herzegovina), on Hadži-Ali-beg mosque, in Livno also on mosque, and in Neum interesting sundials can be found
- in Vid near Metković a roman sundial was found (place called Narona)
- Faust Vrančić constructed a sundial (that could measure days and months)
- firm DURO-METAL on Horvatovac (Zagreb) makes sundials
- in museums there are a lot of sundials (solar ring in Croatian Historic Museum in Zagreb from 1695, equinocial sundial with quadrant from 1801, Arts and Crafts Museum in Zagreb has a few sundials, museum in Gornja Stubica, Ogulin, Senj, Bjelovar...)
- pretty sundials in Pančevo, Sombor, Srijemska Mitrovica (Serbia), Herceg-Novi (Montenegro)...
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