Three significant builders of Lika historical roads

Abstract

During the Military Frontier, many important roads were built in the Lika area which are still in use today, and they capture attention with the quality of construction, skilled design solutions and interpolation into space. Extremely professional roadbuilders of that time made roads that, with some reconstruction, are still in use today. The paper presents short biographies of three prominent builders of historic roads in Lika: Vinko Struppi, Josip Filip Vukasović and Josip Kajetan Knežić, about whom so far it has been written mostly rarely, modestly and individually. With representation of these builders, this paper also presents a description of new technologies that were introduced in road construction and their importance for the construction of modern road infrastructure in Lika.