Stari Grad Overview

Stari Grad is a small town on the northern side of the island of Hvar in Dalmatia, Croatia.
Stari Grad (The Old Town) is located at the end of a four nautical mile-long bay on the northern side of the island of Hvar. The fields used to provide sustenance and the bay provided protection. Today, both the fields and the bay add an attractive quality to the old heart of the island, in the which the modern vacation sights have become interwined with the antiquities of the town of the island.
It used to be trade and naval center, and up to not long ago, the biggest settlement on the island. It has wine-celar with modern equipment, hotels and swimming beach. Smaller beaches are located in the coves inside the bay, and the underwater fishing is possible along the northern coast of the bay. The hunting-ground for rabbits and pheasants is nearby, on the peninsula Kabal.

Stari Grad Guide - Fast Facts

   
Country: Croatia
Location: West
Country Code: +385
Population: 1,906
Language: Croatian
Currency: Kuna (HRK)
Time Zone: GMT+1
Train Station: None
Tourism: Stari Grad Tourism

Transportation in Stari Grad

By Car From Austria and Hungary through Zagreb or from Italy through Rijeka first to Split. From Split you have to take car ferry to Stari Grad.

By Bus The bus station offers local, inter-city and international services via Split.

By Ferry Stari Grad ferry port operates a service to Pescara SNAV. There is 1 crossing a day with a 3 hour sailing time.

Must See

  • Biankini Palace
  • Dominican Monastery
  • Fortified Villa
  • Hektorovic Monument
  • Square Skor

Stari Grad Attractions

Biankini Palace, hosts the Gallery "Juraj Plancic". Founded in 1963, it contains works by a local painter J. Plancic and other eminent local and national artist from the second half of the 20th century. The Dominican monastery was founded in 1482, burnt down during the Turkish assaults in 1571, later restored and fortified with a tower. The monastery keeps an old library and archives, a collection of paintings, stone monuments, a numismatic collection and a collection of fossils. A fortified villa of the poet Petar Hektorovic, with Croatian and Latin inscriptions, a fish pond surrounded by arches and a park, is situated in the centre of the town. The Hektorovic monument (a work by Ivan Mirkovic, 1956) stands on the square in front of the villa, and to the left is the Renaissance church of St. Roch (St. Rocco) built by Hektorovic in 1569. The picturesque square Skor, from the Baroque period, lies in the eastern part of the town
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