Imotski

Of the seventy Venetians living at Imotski after 1717, only the de Franceschi settled permanently in the Imotska krajina. They held the Perinuša estate — the former begluk of arci-beg Čaušević, with land, houses, a mill and a tower on the Vrljika — and they are still present, physically and in the town's memory, though most of the arable land and the mills are gone and many members have scattered.

There is a long local antagonism to go with it: a persistent belief that the liberation was owed solely to the Imotski Franciscans and the people, which casts the acquisition of Perinuša as a seizure. The estate had in fact been Ottoman crown land, held by begs; who owned it before that is lost in medieval darkness.

Fewer than five people named Franceschi live at Imotski today.