Glagolitic Alley is a memorial composed of a string of eleven outdoor monuments dotting the road between the villages Roč and Hum in Croatia. Sculptures were erected between 1977 and 1985 to honor the historical Croatian scribal tradition in Glagolitic script. The road is seven kilometers long.
It is located along the road that runs from Roc village to the smallest town in the world, Hum. Since the 13th century, Roc has been a powerful center of Glagolitic literacy and literature. The total length of the ale is seven kilometers.
It was a project of the Cakavian Parliament.
The idea was by Croatian writer Zvane Črnja, and were designed by sculptor Želimir Janeš and Professor Josip Bratulić. It is a memorial to Glagolitic alphabet and Glagolitics. It shows the way of Istrian, Croatian and Slavic glagoliticism, attests to the centers of Croatian medieval glagolitic literature in Istria, points to Slavic roots and literacy and its continuity from the XI. To the present day. It also emphasizes the way of preserving national self-reliance on its own spirituality, which also established links with other Slavic and European peoples.
