Tourist offer
Grad Korčula
(only 20 minutes from Viganj)
The island of Korčula represents a unique fusion of beautiful nature, thousands of years of cultural tradition and history, and modern tourism. Numerous beautiful beaches and bays, luxurious hotels and summer houses, centuries old olive groves and vineyards, and ancient towns and villages on the island which seem as if they have remained lost in some long past time attract tourist from all over the world to this island.
The vicinity of Dubrovnik as well as island Mljet gives visitors to Korcula unique opportunity to spend time at this unspoiled Island as well as to visit effortlessly Mljet national park, Dubrovnik, Makarska Riviera, UNESCO’s city or Mostar and Neretva River.
Good ferry connections with themainland and other islands, offers lots of possibilities for those that want to explore Central and Southern Dalmatia. We invite you too to meet and explore the island of Korčula. We are sure that if you come once, you will surely come again.
(more info at: http://www.ikorculainfo.com/hr/)
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DUBROVNIK
(only 1 and half hours from Viganj)
For a good sightseeing of Dubrovnik, its treasure and monuments you need more days. During the stroll through Stradun and narrow streets and shops, historical city wall and fortresses visitors meet with thousand year old beauty which reminds on a sea shell retracted in urban core, centuries of brickworks, scrabbling, carving, face with Rector Palace”s history, library treasure, the oldest pharmacy on the European south.
Dubrovnik offers variety of museums and galleries with jewels of Croatian Heritage. Dubrovnik museum in Rector”s Palace in its cultural and historical part has 15 500 objects. In authentically atrium there is a collection of furniture from 17th – 19th century, rector”s and councilor uniforms, noblemen”s clothes. Maritime museum ( St John”s fortress) in its permanent collection offers different fabric connected with Dubrovnik and Croatian maritime affairs, with special accent on history of Dubrovnik Republic. Museum of Franciscan monastery holds all inventory of old pharmacy, works of old Dubrovnik gold works, embroidery and painter workshops.In the museum of Dominican monastery there are valuable examples of Old Dubrovnik Painting school from 15th and 16th century, sculptures, golden objects, writings, incunabula and music notes. In Dubrovnik Cathedral”s Treasury are held reliquaries from St. Blaise the saint protector the Dubrovnik, and other artist paintings and objects. In ethnographical museum Rupe you can see the image of traditional economy and rural architecture from Dubrovnik parts, national costumes, textile workshops. Also there is attractive aquarium of biological institute, which is situated in the St. John”s fortress with examples of sea fauna.
(more at http://portdubrovnik.hr/)