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The island's tallest peak, Vidova gora, or Mount St. Vid, stands at 780 m (2,560 ft), [3] making it the highest point of the Adriatic islands. [4] The island has a population of 13,931, [5] living in twenty-two settlements, ranging from the main town Supetar, with more than 3,400 inhabitants, to Murvica, where less than two dozen people live.
The Zlatni Rat, often referred to as the Golden Cape or Golden Horn (translated from the local Chakavian dialect), is a spit of land located about 2 kilometres (1 mile) west from the harbour town of Bol on the southern coast of the Croatian island of Brač, in the region of Dalmatia.
Povlja (pronounced, locally Povje pronounced) is a village on the island of Brač in Croatia. The village itself is located in a deep natural harbour surrounded by many other deep natural harbours, bays (Luke). Because of that it is famous for short-term and overnight docking.
Bol is a municipality consisting of the town of Bol and the village Murvica on the south side of the island of Brač in the Split-Dalmatia County of Croatia. In the 2021 census, the total population was 1,678, out of which 820 were men and 828 women. The population consists of 1,661 Croatians and 17 foreigners.
The village of Postira is located on the northern coast of the island of Brač, eight kilometers from the island's port of Supetar.It is connected with nearby villages Pučišća, Splitska and Dol as well as with the city of Supetar with paved road, where local bus lines operate.
The mausoleum has been called the most beautiful ancient monument on the island. Saint Elias has an apse that is rectangular from the outside and a semi-circle from the inside. To the west of the church is the hill Trišćenik (Croatian trisk = thunder); this may be intended as a juxtaposition of the pagan thunder god with Saint Elias, who is ...
DIARIES FROM THE ROAD: On the final leg of their RV tour of the US, Simon Veness and Susan Veness drive the Alabama coast to find sprawling state parks, white sands and the ‘happiest place on ...
Cayman Brac is an island that is part of the Cayman Islands. It lies in the Caribbean Sea about 145 km (90 mi) north-east of Grand Cayman and 8 km (5.0 mi) east of Little Cayman . It is about 19 km (12 mi) long, with an average width of 2 km (1.2 mi).