Church of the Holy Spirit

The Church of the Holy Spirit was built by the confraternity of the same name in the late fifteenth century on the site of an older, smaller church. Its bell tower preserves Hvar's oldest bell, cast in 1487, while the interior contains a sixteenth-century relief of the Virgin and Child made in cartapeste. After the Holy Spirit confraternity was abolished in the early nineteenth century, the church passed in 1861 to the confraternity of St Nicholas, which remains active there. A confraternity house with valuable furnishings stands beside it. Small in scale, the site fits easily into a walking tour of Groda and particularly rewards visitors interested in confraternities and Hvar's everyday religious history.