Island Brač - Pučišća
Pučišća is the biggest Brac settlement with genuine Mediterranean
features, creating with its white roof the original local atmosphere.
But this place seemed to dislike the sea because of the northern wind
that whistles in the harbor during the winter months,
Therefore it was situated on the fringes of the bay out of the wind.
The houses gradually climb up to the steep clearings above the port.
The inlets created by the descent of the Brac uplands to the sea are
thus uninhabited.
Although the white slat roofs, being heavier, better resists the
force of the north wind, they are slowly being replaced by
industrial tiles.
And this means are unnecessary withdrawal of the white, stone-built
Pučišća.
Name Pučišća - where did it come from...
The Pučišćans say that their settlement was called Spužišća
because their ancestors "scrawled down"(spustili, spuzili) from the
Medieval settlement of Straževik and Pražnice.
This popular etymology keeps the tradition about the places'
origin.
However Pučišća originates from the Croatized Latin word
puč(Lat.puteus) meaning a well.
This well was set in the present Soline, a place of brackish water.
