When you think of Rogotin… Actually, no, hang on, how many people have actually heard of this southern Croatian village? Rogotin is a small settlement located along the fruitful Neretva river, close to Ploče, and isn’t all that from the popular City of Dubrovnik. Located right in the very heart of watermelon and tangerine country in warm, sunny southern Dalmatia, very few tourists have ever been there.
Unless you have relatives who come from Rogotin, or indeed the little towns and villages surrounding it, it’s highly unlikely you’ve ever heard of it. Mainly a village to pass through on the way somewhere, those who do know of it associate it with precisely the above – watermelons and tangerines. It might come as a shock, in that case, that a company has decided to construct wind organs in Rogotin.
As Morski writes on the 3rd of December, 2019, on the Trovro hill in Rogotin, employees of the Dubrovnik-based company Trag have begun construction of the first wind organs which will be able to be seen from the village of Rogotin itself.
As local portal Rogotin.hr reports, the concrete base on which wind organs will be built has already been constructed and dealt with, and all of the necessary material for the construction is currently transported to the top of the hill by a special vehicle.
These wind organs will “catch” the often powerful bura and thus create sound from it. Along with this truly unique project, the plans are to build two more wind organs, one from the direction of Ploče, a somewhat larger town in the Neretva area, which will generate sound using the maestral winds, and one from the direction of the Neretva river itself, which will use the strong jugo winds to create sound.
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