A stonemason’s workshop in Biograd na Moru. A workshop since 1964, a company since 2001, today 19 staff and 7,000 m² of works.
Since 1964.Biograd na Moru.
A family stonemasonry workshop, today a company with nineteen staff across seven thousand square metres of works beside the town cemetery in Biograd na Moru. By hand where that makes sense, by machine where the machine works better than the hand.
Production, sale and installation of stone, granite and marble: every stage of the work under one roof. Sawing blocks, cutting slabs, polishing, the carved detail.
- 60+Years of stonemasonry
- 19Staff in the workshop
- 7,000 m²Works and showroom
Three things that
keep us on our feet.
The workshop: started in 1964, carried through two generations. The masons we employ today are not chosen at random; each one knows how to measure stone before cutting, what a cut with the grain is, what stone gains in polishing and what it loses when you rush.
The works: seven thousand square metres in the northern part of Biograd na Moru, right beside the town cemetery. Specialised machines for sawing and cutting blocks of stone, polishing lines, hand work stations for the carved detail. Every stage of the work under one roof.
The showroom: samples of forty-six kinds of marble, granite and travertine from across the world. A short walk through the space always helps more than a photograph on a screen.
Three pages
worth reading.
Our story
Sixty years of stonemasonry in one family. A workshop in 1964, a company in 2001, nineteen staff today.
Biograd na MoruWorkshop → Company1964–2026
The stone
What makes stone stone: granite, marble, travertine, limestone. Strength, hardness, water absorption.
Technical guide4 rock familieslearning
Location
The northern part of Biograd na Moru, seven thousand square metres of showroom and production space, beside the town cemetery.
Put Groblja 17,000 m²Mon–Fri 07–16
Sixty years,
three generations.
The years as footholds. Open a row to read what happened between one and the next.
011964 · The workshop foundedFirst generation
The first generation founds a stonemasonry workshop in Biograd na Moru. A small works, two workers, stonemasonry by hand. Most of the early work was grave markers for families in Zadar County.
021987 · The second generationSecond generation
The founder’s son takes over the workshop. He introduces the first specialised machines for cutting blocks, broadens the work to sacral elements and interiors. The works grow to 1,500 m².
032001 · The company foundedCompany
The workshop grows into the company Markvinia d.o.o. A showroom opens with samples of more than forty kinds of marble, granite and travertine. Work with architects and developers across the whole of Dalmatia.
042026 · The third generationToday
The third generation at work. Nineteen staff, seven thousand square metres of works and showroom, more than a hundred projects completed each year, from single memorials to complete facades.
Stonemasonry is learned over years, passed on over decades, and stays for centuries. Markvinia has held to that measure of work for sixty years and three generations.