2021Euromed - Traditional Mediterranean Jewelery - First Day Cover

One of the most luxurious forms of Dubrovnik traditional jewellery are gold earrings. These are the earrings worn by women from Konavle. They are called fjočice, and women from Konavle wear them with the traditional festive way of dressing on the wedding day and in the first year of marriage. The girls received them just before the wedding, during the second gift-giving, which was called veliko obilježje in Konavle, along with other jewellery that consists of: another type of gold earrings verižice, a brooch ploča pod grlo, a large silver razor with a chain sindžir, a large vest čermica, a large filigree puce pod grlo, seven to fourteen rings, and eight gilded filigree pins for headwear called hondelj.