title: Blaca hermitage
text: # Blaca hermitage
  
  The Blaca Hermitage (Croatian: Pustinja Blaca) is located on the southern side of Brač island, in the Split-Dalmatia County of Croatia.
  
  ## Site Description
  
  The hermitage was originally established in 1551 by two Glagolitic monks, and continued by successive generations of monks until 1963 with the death of Father Niko Miličević.
  
  ## World Heritage Status
  
  This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on January 29, 2007, in the Cultural category.
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Monastery piano
  * Monastery telescope
  * Old manuscript
  * Gramophone and printer
  * Old monastery kitchen
  * Monastery goat-breeding
  