Barbariga

Barbariga is a small touristic village situated on the Croatian Adriatic coast built in the eighties, the golden period of the communist Yugoslavia. With as much as 6000 tourists in the summertime's high season it is an empty and ghostlike place during the winter. This is not uncommon since there are numerous tourist resorts and villages occupying kilometers of the beautiful Croatian beaches. But while these resorts are owned by various companies and formally closed in the winter - more often than not with fences and guards - Barbariga hasn't got one owner, the houses belong to the people which bought them and there are some 50 inhabitants actually living in Barbariga throughout the year. The architecture is minimalist and functional, characteristic of that period. Since it was never meant to be a proper town it hasn't got a square, a school, a cinema, a church... Except for one grocery store there are absolutely no services of any kind. Curiously, a tourist village built primarily for summer vacations was not built near the sea, but some 100 meters away from it. Was it because the cape where it is located is called Cape Cissa, named after the legendary town that centuries ago sank into the sea, as Atlantis did?