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The Blue Grotto or Blue Cave (Croatian: Modra špilja), is a flooded sea cave located in a small bay called Balun (Ball in the local dialect), on the east side of the island of Biševo and about 4.5 nautical miles (8.3 km) from Komiža, in the Croatian Adriatic.
Blue Grotto is a water logged sea cave known as a show cave for its glowing blue light that appears at certain day times. [95] Telašćica is a nature park on the Dugi Otok island known for wildlife. [96] Church of St Donatus is a church in Zadar constructed in the 9th century known for its Byzantine architecture. [97]
The monastery, which existed from the 15th century to 1787, was built in a large opening of the cave where there is also a spring. Today, only the monastery church and a part of a shell of a house are preserved. The village, which lies halfway to the cave, is reached from the sea by a winding path which snakes up through pine woods. A new ...
Vis is accessed only by boat from Split. Jadrolinija services the island using mainly the ro-ro ferry MT Petar Hektorović, with a scheduled voyage time of 2 hours and 20 minutes. There is also a high-speed passenger catamaran service Split–Milna–Hvar–Vis provided by Jadrolinija which takes 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Hvar (Chakavian: For, Italian: Lesina) is a town and port on the island of the same name, part of Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. The municipality has a population of 4,251 (2011) while the town itself is inhabited by 3,771 people, making it the largest settlement on the island of Hvar. [ 3 ]
Split (/ s p l ɪ t /, [4] [5] Croatian: ⓘ), historically known as Spalato [6] (Italian: [ˈspaːlato]; Venetian: Spàlato; see other names), is the second-largest city of Croatia, after the capital Zagreb, the largest city in Dalmatia and the largest city on the Croatian coast.
Rudina is a small village on the island of Hvar, in the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. It is located near Stari Grad. The village has a population of 70 people. [3] Most of the population are fishermen. There is a lagoon, Žukova, located there. Rudina has become an escape for the art community during the summer months.
The 1424 Statute of Hvar mentions it as being 3 km from the sea, under the hill of Gozd, in the quest for sea and fishing, and having good fresh water (Portus de Pitue, p. 202, fons vocata Ielsa qui est prope mare, pp. 50 i 51, ad Ielsa usque ad ripam maris, p. 46, itd.). The first houses were built around the church of Sv.