Makarska

Makarska is a small town on the Adriatic coastline of Croatia, about 60 km southeast of Split and 140 km northwest of Dubrovnik. It has a population of 13,716 residents. Administratively Makarska has the status of a town and it is part of the Split-Dalmatia County.

Makarska is a tourist centre, located on a horseshoe shaped bay between the Biokovo mountains and the Adriatic Sea. The city is noted for its palm-fringed promenade, where fashionable cafes, bars and boutiques overlook the pretty harbour where many pleasure craft are moored. Adjacent to the beach are several large capacity hotels as well as a camping ground. The center of Makarska is an old town with narrow stone-paved streets, a main church square where there is a flower and fruit market, and a Franciscan monastery that houses a sea shell collection featuring a giant clam shell. Makarska is the center of the Makarska Riviera, a popular tourist destination under the Biokovo mountain. It stretches for 60 km between the towns of Brela and Gradac.

We recommend spending a day in Makarska due to its rich history full of old roman remains. In Makarska are following attractions worth seeing:

St. Mark's Cathedral (17th century), in the Main Square.

Statue of the friar Andrija Kačić Miošić by the famous Croatian sculptor Ivan Rendić.

St. Philip's Church (18th century).

St. Peter's church (13th century), situated on the Sv. Petar peninsula, rebuilt in 1993. The Franciscan monastery (16th century).

It houses a library with numerous books and rare incunabula's and a famous, world known collection of shells from all over the world, collected in a Malacological Museum from 1963.

Napoleon monument, erected in the honour of the French Marshal Marmont in 1808. The Baroque Ivanisevic Palace. Villa Tonolli, which is home to the Town Museum.