Valamar Blog

The story about the oyster as a shell with aphrodisiac features has been well-known from the ancient times when it was tasted with great pleasure by the Renaissance Dubrovnik noblemen during the feasts. The legend about its magical features was no secret to the Austrian emperors either. They often enjoyed eating it. The oyster we are talking about comes from the Mali Ston Bay, a part of the Dubrovnik region where it is grown in the purest and clearest sea in the world.

In Croatia, oysters are most often used and eaten fresh, live, on ice or as a cold appetizer, i.e. introductory dish of a menu which was, gastronomically speaking, put together well. In terms of a cold appetizer it can be served as a cocktail, a salad, various mignons and finger food which includes oysters, as well as in jellied fish, canapés, etc.

The Oyster festivity will be held for the second time at Stradun on Saturday, 20 March, which will include the sale and tasting of these aphrodisiac shells with good local wine such as Plavac from Pelješac, Pošip from Kor?ula and many others from the Dubrovnik region. Visitors and tourists, people living in the town and all those who find themselves at Stradun, the most beautiful stage in the world, on the afore-mentioned Saturday, will have the opportunity of smelling and tasting the freshness of the sea, the harshness of the bora wind, the bitterness of salt and the fullness of wine, accompanied by no other than the unique Dalmatian traditional song.