Mrgari are drywall buildings intended for the occasional collection and sorting of sheep. They consist of a common central space of the hall and, like flower petals, are arranged in squirrels, which are individually owned by the shepherd.

They were used in such a way that all the gathered shepherds drove the sheep from the commune (pasture) towards the funnel-shaped entrance of the mrgar. When the sheep gathered in the hall, the entrance would be closed and each shepherd would separate his sheep and lock them in his snout. When he would do the work in the mrgaric (inspect the sheep, shear them, or whatever), he would drop them through the outer opening of the mrgaric back to the commune.

The peculiarity of these stone "flowers" is that you can find them only in the southern part of the island of Krk. They were built only by shepherds from the Baška valley, and not all of them. The shepherds from Baška, Batomlje and Jurandvor are responsible for this rhapsody in stone, while the shepherds from Draga Bašćanska did not use this method of sheep breeding. Mrgara has ten, five on each plateau, and five more on the neighboring island of Prvić, which are used for grazing by the same shepherds from these places.

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