Visiting Korcula Island, Croatia
Articles about the Island of Korcula
Getting to & from Korcula
Here are the current best options for public transport for getting to Korcula Island. As there is no airport on the island, to reach the nearest airport you will need to fly to either Split or Dubrovnik and from there take any available public transport to reach Korcula. From Dubrovnik: … Read more » Getting to & from KorculaThings to do in Korcula Island
Korcula is one of the places and islands in Croatia that visitors to the country cannot get enough of. There is a lot to do on this island. Here we share things you really should add to your list. Whether you have just one, two, or more days available, here … Read more » Things to do in Korcula IslandKorcula Beaches
Korcula is well known for the quality and variety of its beaches that provide excellent windsurfing conditions and are great places to swim and sunbathe or walk even on a stormy winter’s day. Most of them are sheltered in shingle/pebble coves of the north and south coast, such as Pupnatska … Read more » Korcula BeachesHrvoje Kapelina Art
About Hrvoje Lorenzo Kapelina The career of Hrvoje Kapelina has been determined by an extremely wish and need to paint. Like many other self-taught painters, unfettered and free of all rules and techniques imposed by eventual schools, he had to face many dilemmas and traps. Apart from the strong wish … Read more » Hrvoje Kapelina ArtCycling in Korcula Island
Numerous quiet country lanes and scenic off-road tarmac roads, make the island of Korcula an ideal destination for a cycling holiday. There are cycling routes to suit everyone, from peaceful slow country lanes to more challenging off-road hilly paths around the hills of Korcula. You can cycle here along the … Read more » Cycling in Korcula IslandHotel Korčula De La Ville
Hotel de la Ville, which is now Hotel Korčula, is the first town hotel built in 1912, more than a hundred years ago. Therefore, it is a monument to Korčula’s tourist tradition. It has been considered to be the best of what Korčula has to offer since it was built. … Read more » Hotel Korčula De La VilleKorcula Archipelago
The Korčula archipelago has almost twenty different islands, islets and reefs, collectively known as the škoji. Pronounced “schkoi“, the word comes from the Italian word ‘obstacle’. Their presence has been vital to the people of the surrounding area, frequently providing natural resources for a livelihood that has changed as time … Read more » Korcula ArchipelagoKorcula Old Town
Korcula Old Town is a popular place to visit for anyone who is visiting the area around Dubrovnik, Split or Peljesac in Croatia. It is a small medieval walled town that was built on a tiny peninsula on the northeast coast of the Korcula island. The town is also known … Read more » Korcula Old TownMoreška
Moreska is pronounced ‘Moreshka’. It means ‘Moorish’. The word is derived from the Spanish adjective ‘Morisco’ or the Italian ‘Moresco’. It is a matter of conjecture whether the dance came to the Adriatic directly from Spain through roving Spanish sailors, or from Sicily or Italy when Dalmatia formed part of … Read more » MoreškaMarco Polo and Korcula
Introduction The city of Korcula, in the opinion of its many distinguished visitors throughout its rich history, is one of the most attractive and best-preserved towns from the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean area. The island of the same name is one in the long string of ‘pearls’ forming a … Read more » Marco Polo and Korcula
Korcula Old Town Fishbone Street Pattern – Medieval Urban Planning Explained
Most visitors to Korcula Old Town spend their first ten minutes convinced they are lost. The streets curve, branch, and double back in what seems like a medieval maze with no logic. Then someone points out the pattern — and suddenly the whole town makes sense. Korcula Old Town was … Read more » Korcula Old Town Fishbone Street Pattern – Medieval Urban Planning ExplainedLumbarda Psephisma -The Oldest Written Document in Croatia
In 1877, a farmer digging on the hill of Koludrt above Lumbarda uncovered a stone tablet covered in ancient Greek text. What he had found turned out to be the oldest written document ever discovered on Croatian soil — a decree from the 3rd or 4th century BC recording the … Read more » Lumbarda Psephisma -The Oldest Written Document in CroatiaGrk Wine Lumbarda – The Rarest Wine in Croatia, Grown Only on Korcula
Grk is a white wine grape grown nowhere else in the world except the sandy fields around Lumbarda on the eastern tip of Korcula island. Not anywhere else in Croatia – nowhere else on earth. The total cultivated area is less than 50 hectares, the number of producers is small, … Read more » Grk Wine Lumbarda – The Rarest Wine in Croatia, Grown Only on KorculaTatinja Beach, Lumbarda – Village Beach on Korcula Island
Tatinja is the village beach of Lumbarda — small, sandy, and just 350 metres from the centre of the village. While Vela Pržina draws visitors from across the island and Bilin Žal attracts families with young children, Tatinja is where locals go for a quick morning swim, an afternoon coffee … Read more » Tatinja Beach, Lumbarda – Village Beach on Korcula IslandRaznjić Beach, Korcula – Rocky Cape at the Eastern Tip of the Island
Cape Raznjić is the easternmost point of Korcula island — the rocky finger of land that juts into the open Adriatic where the north and south coasts of the island meet. The beach here is not a beach in the conventional sense: no sand, no facilities, no sun loungers. What … Read more » Raznjić Beach, Korcula – Rocky Cape at the Eastern Tip of the IslandLenga Beach Lumbarda – Rocky Wild Coastline on Korcula Island
Lenga — also known as Lenga Brendana — is the wild stretch of coast that most visitors to Lumbarda walk straight past on the way to Bilin Žal or Vela Pržina. That is their loss. About one kilometre of rocky shoreline running from Bilin Žal east to Cape Raznjić, the … Read more » Lenga Beach Lumbarda – Rocky Wild Coastline on Korcula IslandBilin Žal Beach, Lumbarda – Family Sandy Beach on Korcula Island
Bilin Žal is the quieter alternative to Vela Pržina and the beach that locals with young children tend to prefer. Smaller, more sheltered and facing north-east rather than open sea, it sits on the opposite side of the Lumbarda peninsula from Vela Pržina — about 1.2km from the village centre … Read more » Bilin Žal Beach, Lumbarda – Family Sandy Beach on Korcula IslandKayaking Korcula Island
The island of Korcula is a great place to try sea kayaking. It offers the widest range of sea environments to enjoy. There are plenty of interesting beaches, bays, sheltered harbors, and islets to kayak to. Some are further away, while other places are within easy paddling distance from beaches … Read more » Kayaking Korcula IslandKorcula Walking Tours
Anyone can show you Korcula. However, on our Korcula walking tour, you will not only see it, but you will also discover it. Exploring Korcula and its Old Town on foot with our local expert-guided tour is more interesting than doing it in any other way. Cars, bikes, scooters, or … Read more » Korcula Walking ToursHistoric Town of Korcula Walking Tour
A historical stroll through the past and present of Korčula’s historic part. Kerkyra Melaina for the Greeks, Curzola for Venice, and Korčula for the Croatians, the town that soars above the Adriatic been called different names throughout the ages. Yet all treasured the one important thing that the island offered. … Read more » Historic Town of Korcula Walking Tour
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Korcula Tourist BoardHR-20260 Korčula, Obala dr. Franje Tuđmana 4 Phone: +385(0)20 715 701 / +385(0)20 715 867 Fax: +385(0)20 715 866
