{"id":4471,"date":"2016-03-07T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T12:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2018-07-26T07:28:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T07:28:18","slug":"all-about-corals-and-why-we-associate-zlarin-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/product\/all-about-corals-and-why-we-associate-zlarin-with-them\/","title":{"rendered":"ALL ABOUT CORALS AND WHY WE ASSOCIATE ZLARIN WITH THEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\">When you look at corals, you probably wouldn\u2019t think that they are actually animals.&nbsp; They are the largest class of the phylum chidarian species, about which we know a lot nowadays.&nbsp; Most of us have heard ofthemfrom the jewelry for which coral is known.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HGdgAzio09Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\">Stories and legendsabout coral and the values we associate with them remain an interesting topic of exploration even after so many years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/050-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"050\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/067.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/067-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"067\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\">Here are some interesting facts you might not know about thisfascinating part of the sea world:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\">Coral, translated from Greek, means <b>\u201cdaughter of the sea.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\">According to <b>ancient legends<\/b>, coral was made when Perseus severed Medusa\u2019s head and threw it into the sea. The seaweed covered with her blood petrified and transformed into corals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\"><b>Up until the 18th century<\/b>, it was believed that coral was a plant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\">According to anotherancient legend, corals were described as flowers, whichpetrify as soon as they are taken out of the sea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\">It takes coral <b>more than ten years<\/b> to grow and reach a size ready for harvest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\">When coral is warmed to high temperatures, <b>it becomes white<\/b> and by that, it is recognized as genuine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\">Because of this quality,coral<b>was often given to children<\/b> as a present so it could be visible when the children got a higher body temperature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\"><b>A huge coral reef in Australia<\/b> has the largest, most diverse andamazing ecosystem on our planet, where the symbiosis between living species of the marine world originated 20,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\">That special and rare animal found its place in the Adriatic Sea.&nbsp; A long history of jewelry making led to its high price at the market.&nbsp; Coral is an enduring substance that has had high value for centuries. <b>Especially coral from the Adriatic sea,which has been harvested by people from Zlarin.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/060.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/060-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"060\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/055.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/055-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"055\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px!important;\">The culture of jewelry making on Zlarin retains its traditional spirit.&nbsp; It takes a few days to make a necklace nowadays just as it didsome forty years ago.&nbsp; So on Zlarin you can see the traditional use of this incredible sea-treasure.&nbsp; Zlarin is an ideal place to learn all the legends, stories, and interesting things about coral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you look at corals, you probably wouldn\u2019t think that they are actually animals.&nbsp; They are&#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,44,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}