Curzola

“Even in Dalmatia there are few more picturesque sights than Korćula as the ship steams into the harbour. Though part of the Venetian fortifications have been pulled down some of the bastions and forts still survive, and the little town climbs the hill behind them up to the cathedral and the campanile which crown the low promontory. Once the site of a Greek town, legend declares that it was a colony of Knidos in Asia Minor, and was known as Corcyra Nigra from the pine-woods which then covered the island, and to distinguish it from the great Corcryra (Corfù); the trees which were at a much later period to furnish the timber for Venetians galleys have now mostly given way to vineyards and cultivated land (p. 94).

Venice has left her mark as unmistakably on the architecture of Cúrzola as on that of her other Dalmatian possessions: narrow streets with steps lead between the houses up from the harbour to the small level space on the top of the hill where the cathedral stands. […]. A straight street leads from the cathedral down to the northern or landward gate of the town, while in the little square just inside the walls stands the Venetian loggia, its arches  now filled in with windows as at Zara (pp. 96-97)”.