RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF ITALY AND CROATIA

Kultura predstavlja složenu cjelinu običaja i vrijednosti neke skupine ljudi koji se prenose učenjem. Dok je u počecima kultura imala obilježja samo materijalnog, u današnje je vrijeme poprimila obilježja i duhovnog procesa. Kultura se općenito shvaća kao skup vrijednosti, običaja i vjerovanja prema kojima živi određena grupa ljudi i to je nešto što je stvorio čovjek, a ne priroda. Kulture se šire u prostoru, a u suvremeno doba to je širenje postalo sve brži i kompleksniji proces zbog čega su se razvila nova shvaćanja pojma kulture. Italija i Republika Hrvatska susjedne su zemlje koje su, možda upravo zbog te svoje blizine, poprimile dosta zajedničkih običaja, vjerovanja i sadržaja, i to ne samo iz kulturološkog aspekta. Utjecaji miješanja različitih kultura, pa tako i one talijanske na hrvatskom području vidljivi su u hrvatskoj arhitekturi, glazbi i umjetnosti. Sve je više talijanskih državljana u Republici Hrvatskoj te hrvatskih državljana u Italiji čime se miješaju njihovi običaji, tradicija i vjerovanja.Culture is a complex set of customs and values of a group of people that are transmitted through learning. While in the beginning culture had only material characteristics, today it has taken on the characteristics of a spiritual process as well. Culture is generally understood as a set of values, customs and beliefs according to which a certain group of people live and it is something created by man and not nature. Cultures are expanding in space, and in modern times this expansion has become an increasingly rapid and complex process, which is why new understandings of the concept of culture have developed. Italy and the Republic of Croatia are neighboring countries that, perhaps precisely because of their proximity, have adopted many common customs, beliefs and content, and not only from a cultural point of view. The influences of mixing different cultures, including the Italian one in the Croatian area, are visible in Croatian architecture, music and art. There are more and more Italian citizens in the Republic of Croatia and Croatian citizens in Italy, which mixes their customs, traditions and beliefs