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This typical old village of vine growers with about 700 inhabitants lies on the main island road 25 km from the city of Korcula. Cara was built on the south slope of a hill under which spreads a large fertile field covered with vineyards. A special species of grape grows here, called Posip. The village has a wine cellar where a widely known wine of that name is made. In the village centre stands St Peter's parish church from the 15th century, reconstructed many times. Its bell tower was completed in the 1920s. The main altar has the painting Christ Revealing Himself to the Apostles by the outstanding Venetian Renaissance artist Jacopo Bassano from the end of the 16th century. A great cypress tree several centuries old grows on the small paved square in front of the church. Like in the other island settlements, Korcula landowners and patricians built fortified summer houses here and in the nearby bay of Zavalatica. In the Polje in the midst of vineyards is the old and new graveyard with the votive church of Our Lady of Cara Field (Gospa od Carskog polja) from the 14th century, which got its present appearance in the Baroque period. On its altar is a predella with reliefs from the life of the Virgin. According to tradition, the sea washed these late-Gothic alabaster (earlier coloured) reliefs of English origin, from a 15th century Nottingham workshop, into the nearby Cavica luka bay, and there is also a legend about their miraculous arrival in Cara. The church is the main pilgrimage centre on the island of Korcula: on St James's Day, 25th of July, there is a great ceremony here when a church procession walks around the whole of Cara field carrying the figure of the Virgin from the altar, followed by many islanders. The Braca Crnomiri cultural and performing art society in Cara was named after legendary brothers who fought bravely for the rights of the serfs against the Venetian nobility and governor in ancient days. The villagers are farmers and work in tourism. There are modern family pensions right beside the sea in the nearby south bay of Zavalatica (2 km of good road).
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Cara Ovo tipično staro naselje vinogradara s oko 700 žitelja udaljeno od grada Korčule cestom 25 km nalazi se uz glavnu otočnu prometnicu. Izgrađeno je na južnoj padini brijega podno kojega se prostire veliko, plodno polje s vinogradima. Tu se uzgaja posebna vrsta grožđa - Pošip. U mjestu je i vinarski podrum gdje se proizvodi istoimeno glasovito vino. U središtu naselja uz cestu stoji župna crkva sv. Petra iz 15. stoljeća, višekratno pregrađena, a njezin zvonik je završen osamdesetih godina 20. stoljeća. Na glavnom oltaru je slika Krist se pokazuje apostolima djelo istaknutog venecijanskog renesansnog umjetnika Jacopa Bassana s kraja 16. stoljeća. Na malom popločanom trgu pred crkvom raste višestoljetni veliki čempres. Kao i u ostalim naseljima otoka i ovdje u obližnjoj morskoj uvali Zavalatici bili su utvrđeni ljetnikovci korčulanskih posjednika i plemića. U polju sred vinograda je mjesno staro i novo groblje sa zavjetnom crkvom Gospe Carskog polja iz 14. stoljeća koja je sadašnji oblik dobila u baroku. Na njezinom oltaru je predela s reljefnim prizorima iz života Bogorodice. Te kasnogotičke alabasterne (nekada obojene) reljefe engleskog podrijetla - radionica Nothinghem iz 15. stoljeća po tradiciji je u nedaleku uvalu Čavića luku naplavilo more, a postoji i legenda o njihovu čudesnom dolasku u Čaru. Crkva je središnje hodočasničko svetište otoka Korčule: na blagdan sv. Jakova 25. srpnja ovdje je velika svečanost kad se na zavjetnoj procesiji koja obilazi cijelo Čarsko polje nosi lik Bogorodice s oltara, a prati je mnoštvo puka s cijelog otoka. U Čari djeluje kulturno-umjetničko društvo Braća Crnomiri, ime je dobilo po legendarnoj braći koja su se nekada davno hrabro borila za prava kmetova protiv mletačkog plemstva i kneza. Stanovništvo se osim poljoprivredom bavi turizmom. U obližnjoj južnoj uvali Zavalatici (2 kilometra lijepom cestom) niz je obiteljskih suvremeno opremljenih pansiona izdignutih neposredno uz obalu. Ova Kategorija je trenutno prazna