Among the prominent\nfigures from the area are the twin brothers Ivan and Matko (Mate) Ba\u0161tijan.\nThey were born in Gornji Jugi on 3 September 1828. After finishing the elementary school in Kastav, they attended the Rije\u010dka Gimnazija high school in\nRijeka and then studied for a further two years in Zagreb, after which they\nattended seminaries in Gorica and Trieste, being ordained in 1852. After a\nshort period of service in Istria, they permanently moved to Trieste, where\nthey worked as catechists. Marko died in 1885 and Ivan in 1886, and they are both\nburied at St. Anna’s Cemetery in Trieste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both brothers were active\nparticipants in the National Revival movement in Istria. It is presumed that\nthey learned about the Croatian National Revival in 1848 while at school in\nZagreb. It is particularly interesting to note that they spent their entire lives\ntogether, both in work and privately. They also constantly provided help and\nencouragement to each other in their educational, cultural, artistic and\npolitical work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matko Ba\u0161tijan was\none of the founders of the Na\u0161a Sloga<\/em>\nnewspaper in 1870, which played an important role in the Istrian National Revival.\nEven though he was never officially chief editor, historians agree that he was\nthe driving force behind this newspaper and also the author of numerous\narticles, national songs (budnice<\/em>)\nand commentaries. He was also the author of the famous dialogues between two\nfictional characters from Istria (Jurina and Franina) written in the Chakavian\ndialect of the Kastav region. However,\nMatko was primarily a poet and\nwriter, although his work is less known and rather neglected. His first poem\nwas published in the Neven<\/em> magazine and\nthe majority of his other poems in Na\u0161a\nSloga<\/em>. He mostly wrote national poems, which needed to be simple, fluid and\nunderstandable for people. His great talent can be seen in some of his elegies,\nalthough only fragments of some of his works, such as the play The Last Captain of Kastav<\/em>, have been\npreserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ivan focused primarily on painting. He was a self-taught but very respectable art connoisseur who procured and evaluated paintings for Bishop Strossmayer. He even asked the bishop for an art college scholarship in Rome but did not get it. Only a few of his paintings are known today. The most important one is the painting of St. Matthew in the church in Vi\u0161kovo. He also painted St. Nicholas in Kukuljanovo, St. Anna in Volosko, St. Anthony in Hum, St. Luke in Rukavac and St. Sebastian in Kastav, as well as the pilgrimage flag which people from Kastav carried on their processions to Trsat for many years. This flag, emblazoned with the image of St. Helen and Our Lady of Trsat, has unfortunately been lost. Ivan also reputedly painted a portrait of Bishop Strossmayer. It is interesting that he also drew the characters created by his brother \u2013 Jurina and Franina \u2013 for the Na\u0161a Sloga<\/em> newspaper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1930, a large ceremony was organised in their birth house to commemorate the centenary of their births. A memorial plaque made by Milan Brozovi\u0107 was placed on the house on this occasion. The Municipality of Vi\u0161kovo renovated the plaque in 2009 at the initiative of the Matica hrvatska<\/em> institution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Composer and\nfolklorist Ivan Mateti\u0107 Ronjgov was born on 10 April 1880 in the village of\nRonjgi. He acquired his musical education at the Academy of Music in Zagreb. He\nresearched and transcribed Istrian melodies and helped interpret the Istrian\nscale. Thanks to him, folk music from Istria and the Kvarner regions has been\nincluded in the tonal system of artistic music. He was the first to define the\nIstrian scale and explain the semitone intervals that are the basis of this\nfolk music, which became part of the Croatian tradition in the Kvarner and\nIstria regions. By providing the theoretical explanation of the Istrian scale,\nMateti\u0107 established the basis for composing artistic music in this specific\nscale. His compositions became a kind of folklore anthem of the Kvarner region\nand include a variety of choral, solo, church and instrumental pieces.\n\nIn 1977, his birth house in\nRonjgi was turned into a memorial house which is today the seat of the ‘Ivan\nMateti\u0107 Ronjgov’ Association. ‘Mateti\u0107 Days’ is an event celebrating him that takes\nplace annually.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ivan Ivo Jardas, also\nknown as Barba Zvane Halubjan Matija\u0161ev od Mar\u010deji, was born on 15 July 1888.\nHe attended the state school in Sveti Matej (present-day Vi\u0161kovo) and the trade\nschool in Kastav, which he completed in 1902, emigrating to America at the age\nof 17. However, since life there did not turn out as he had expected, he\nreturned to his birth place in 1908, where he enrolled at Kastav teacher\ntraining school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During his schooling,\nhe became interested in his homeland and national heritage. His first\nethnographic records date back to 1909 and 1910. After graduating in 1913, he worked\nas a teacher in Martin\u010di\u0107i near Gro\u017enjan. On the initiative of Matko Laginja,\nhe started collecting ethnographic materials such as national poems, stories\nand customs. As a genuine teacher and patriot, he often had to change his place\nof work due to political circumstances in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and\nSlovenes. He worked in Jastrebarsko from 1925 to 1930, in Lokve until 1949, and\nthen returned to Zagreb, where he became headmaster of the elementary school in\nHaramba\u0161i\u0107eva Ulica Street, remaining there until his retirement in 1951.\n\nIn 1953, Matica hrvatska<\/em> published his Chakavian stories called Kitica ma\u017eurani<\/em>, and in 1957 the\nYugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts (JAZU) published his book Kastav\u0161tina<\/em>. His ethnographic study Po gro\u017enjanskom Krasu<\/em> was published in\n1971. Ivan Ivo Jardas died in 1978.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n The writer Berto\nLu\u010di\u0107 was born in 1921 in Globi\u0107i. He actively participated in the cultural\nlife of the Halubje area from childhood. He recited and acted, and was a member\nof the Red Cross Tamburitza Choir. His first poems were published in 1938 in\ntwo local newspapers. During World War Two, he was tried and imprisoned in\nFlorence, but returned after the Italian surrender, joined the partisans, and resumed\nhis cultural and artistic work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After World War Two,\nhe lived in Rube\u0161i (Kastav), where he continued his work. In the 1970s, the\nfirst cultural programmes were organised in Kastav. Berto Lu\u010di\u0107 was initially a\npresenter and afterwards also the author of comic texts in the Chakavian\ndialect. In the 1990s, the KUD<\/em> Istarska vila<\/em> cultural association\nperformed his one-act plays Likuf<\/em> and\nNa matice<\/em>. This is considered today as\nthe beginning of the Kastav Summer of\nCulture<\/em> series of events which takes place every year in the town of\nKastav.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He received an award from\nthe Croatian Culture Council (Hrvatski\nsabor culture<\/em>) for writing the screenplay for the comedy Botrinje<\/em> and also directing it. In\naddition, he wrote the shows Primorska\npone\u0161trica<\/em> and Judi i u\u017eanci<\/em> for Radio\nRijeka. He also had a column called Pod urun\n<\/em>in the Novi list<\/em> newspaper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Works: poetry\ncollections Judi i u\u017eanci<\/em>, Sto\u010di\u0161\u0107e<\/em> and Likuf<\/em>, comedies Jedanajst\nkumedij<\/em>, Dve kumedije i jo\u0161 \u010dagodar<\/em>.\n\nBerto Lu\u010di\u0107 died in 2002.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vladimir Jugo was\nborn in 1940 in Gornji Jugi. He attended schools in Vi\u0161kovo, Kastav and Rijeka,\nand studied German and philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities in Zagreb. He\nworked as a teacher in Bakar, Kastav and Vi\u0161kovo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jugo started his\ncareer at the Novi list<\/em> newspaper, first\nas a proof-reader and then as a journalist and editor. From 1974, he was in\ncharge of the Radio Rijeka show S\nprimorske pone\u0161trice<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A great sports and football\nenthusiast, he was one of the founders of Halubjan Youth Club and the organiser\nof numerous football tournaments. He was also the prime mover in founding\nHalubjan Football Club, for which he played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first collection\nof his newspaper columns Hodi vreme, nosi breme<\/em> was published in 2003, and the second Veli i mi\u0107i\npod zvezdami<\/em> in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a journalist and\nco-author of various books, he consistently promoted the Chakavian dialect. His\ntexts pay tribute to the ‘ordinary man’ from Kastav and depict the hard but\nbeautiful life in the Halubje and Kastav areas.\n\nVladimir Jugo (Veli) died in\n2014.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MATKO AND IVAN BA\u0160TIJAN (BASTIAN) Among the prominent figures from the area are the twin brothers Ivan and Matko (Mate) Ba\u0161tijan. They were born in Gornji Jugi on 3 September 1828. After finishing the elementary school in Kastav, they attended the Rije\u010dka Gimnazija high school in Rijeka and then studied for a further two years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13472,"parent":1683,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIVAN MATETI\u0106 RONJGOV<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
IVAN JARDAS <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
ALBERT (BERTO) LU\u010cI\u0106<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
VLADIMIR JUGO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n