The Batana of Rovinj - Rovigno

摘要

The multidisciplinary project "Batana of Rovinj - Rovigno" is a result of the potential of alive maritime tradition nourished by the community of Rovinj. The objectives of the project are research, protection, transmitting, and presenting oral tradition, material and non-material heritage of the batana, and enriching the offer of heritage tourism of Rovinj, Istria, and Croatia. The eco museum "The Batana House" is the basis of the project, which, among other things, stimulates a more systematic research of the traditional construction of the batana and a more systematic nomenclature of the constituent parts of the vessel in the native Italian dialect of Rovinj that this article will present to the scientific community for the first time.