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Dubrovnik Musket-bearing Guard of Honour One cannot imagine a major event in Dubrovnik without the participation of... the Dubrovnik Musket-bearing Guard of Honour. Its members carry light wide guns, the firing of which can frighten those who are unfamiliar with the sound, but also warn the local people that something important is happening in the City. One of such events is the Festival of St Blaise, the Citys patron saint, which takes place on 3 February. A large number of congregation members from Dubrovnik and its surroundings gather within the City walls and walk in a procession carrying the banners of their parish churches. They wear folk costumes of Primorje, Župa dubrovačka and Konavle, which have been kept for the occasion in the old family chests. Early in the morning of St Blaises Day the Dubrovnik Musket-bearing Guard of Honour arrives at Brsalje and gun salutes before entering the City, ceremoniously announcing the day which is of major importance for Dubrovnik. The musket-bearers never fire within the city walls. The room for this is reserved at Peskarija or Pile, where men were trained to shoot from guns and cannons at the time of the Dubrovnik Republic. According to the records, the long and rich history of the musket-bearers goes back to the 16th century, when the Church of St Sebastian -adjacent to the Dominican Monastery situated at the eastern entrance to the City - was the seat of the grenadiers-cannoneers guild. The present day musket-bearers, however, claim 1417 to be the year of their foundation. The mortar and musket-bearers were continuously active in Dubrovnik up to World War I, yet their activities were interrupted during the Austro-Hungarian reign. Re-established in 1970, the musket-bearers have been continuously active in the public life of the City. Their participation in the Festivity of St Blaise in 1992, when Dubrovnik was bleeding in the Croatian War of Independence, was particularly moving. Instead of the ceremonious gun saluting, the musket-bearers walked gracefully in the procession of peace with olive branches in the barrels of their muskets, celebrating St Blaises Day together with others who came to pay homage to the Dubrovnik patron saint. The Festival of St Blaise actually reveals the most intrinsic tradition of the Dubrovnik Musket-bearing Guard with the precise schedule of gun salute firing, the only one which glorifies freedom and free spirit that have been traditional in this peaceful city, leaving the smell of gunpowder behind.
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koji na ramenu nose kratke široke puške čija paljba nenaviklo uho može i preplašiti, a domaće i upoznato s tradicijom, „upozoriti“ kako se u Gradu događa nešto značajno. Poput, primjerice, početka feste sv. Vlaha, parca Grada, 3. veljače kada se unutar zidina slijevaju brojni vjernici iz bližnje i daljnje okolice koji stižu u procesiju, s barjacima svojih župa, u narodnim nošnjama Primorja, Župe dubrovačke ili Konavala koje specijalno za ovu priliku vade iz starinskih obiteljskih škrinja. Na blagdan sv. Vlaha ujutro, prije svih, Dubrovački trombunjeri stižu na Brsalje gdje ispaljuju salve prije ulaza u Grad, označavajući dan od velike važnosti za Dubrovnik. Unutar zidina ne puca se nikad, za to su „rezervirana“ mjesta na Peskariji ili na Pilama, gdje se i u vrijeme Republike vježbalo gađanje iz pušaka i topova. Duga i bogata povijest trombunjera, sudeći prema zapisima u povijesnim knjigama, seže u 16. stoljeće, kada se spominjala bratovština bombardijera-topnika koja je imala svoje sjedište u crkvi sv. Sebastijana uz Dominikanski samostan koji se nalazi s istočnog ulaza u Grad. Današnji trombunjeri, pak, kao godinu osnutka navode 1417. Lumbardijeri i trombunjeri u Dubrovniku su trajno djelovali sve do Prvog svjetskog rata, ali im je za vrijeme Austro-Ugarske rad bio prekidan. U javnom životu Grada iznova su kontinuirano prisutni od 1970. godine, a osobito je dirljiv njihov izostanak, na njima svojstven način, u festi sv. Vlaha 1992. godine, kada je Dubrovnik krvario u Domovinskom ratu. Nije se te godine pucalo iz trombona, onako slavljenički i ponosno, već su trombunjeri u cijevi svojih pušaka zataknuli grančicu masline te dostojanstveno hodali u procesiji mira, slaveći Dan dubrovačkog zaštitnika, sv. Vlaha s ostalim vjernicima koji su došli hodočastiti dubrovačkom parcu. Jer, upravo je Festa sv. Vlaha najprepoznatljiviji trag autentičnosti Dubrovačkih trombunjera s točno određenim i organiziranim rasporedom ispaljivanja plotuna, jedinih koji veličaju slobodu i slobodarstvo, tradiciju mirnoga Grada, ostavljajući za sobom miris baruta.