Island of Krk - Visit

OMIŠALJ
Omišalj stands on Vela stena, a cliff 85 metres above sea level, dominating the almost three kilometre long Omišalj Bay. It is the first settlement on the island after Krk Bridge (2 km back), and Rijeka Airport is also in the vicinity.

NJIVICE
A settlement on the north west part of the island (10 km south of Krk Bridge), located in the sheltered bay called Beli Kamik. Once a small fishing village, it is today one of the most attractive holiday making centres on the island.

MALINSKA
In a wide bay on the north west coast of the island, 15 km south of Krk Bridge. It is the centre of the Dubašnice area, which was named after the luxuriant oak forests (dub being a Slavonic root for oak).

PORAT - VANTAČIĆI
Porat-Vantačići (3 km from Malinska) has a Third Order Franciscan monastery and the St Mary Magdalene Church from 1500.

VRBNIK
This spot lies in the south east of the island and is 37 km from Krk Bridge. It stands on a 48 metre high cliff over the sea. It is a wine-growing area and famed for the local wine called Vrbnička žlahtina.

RISIKA
A smallish settlement 6 km north west of Vrbnik, with a sandy beach in Sv. Marko Bay.

KRK
A city and port on the western side of the island, 25 kilometres from Krk Bridge. A one-time Roman municipality and centre of the Frankopans, the dukes of Krk. This is the administrative, political, economic and religious centre of the island.

GLAVOTOK
A cape just opposite the island of Cres, 17 km north west of Krk. A forest of holm oak (1 hectare) is a forest vegetation reserve. By the Church of the Immaculate Conception (1277), a Third Order Franciscan monastery was built in the 15th century.

PINEZIĆI
A village 12 km north west of Krk town. Once a fishing village, today it has developed into a holidaymaking spot.

KORNIĆ
A smallish settlement 7 kilometres away from Krk, with an interesting rural architecture including the Parish Church of St James (Jakov) of the 19th century.

STARA BAŠKA
A fishing village 10 kilometres south of Punat. Alongside its pebbly beach, its greatest value lies in the unspoiled nature, with its terraced gromače and stone-built sheep folds, its stone desert and cliffs, the habitat for medicinal and aromatic herbs.

BAŠKA
Baška is at the extreme south east end of the island, 43 from Krk Bridge. A settlement of an interesting maritime architecture, it stretches along the almost 2 kilometre long strand, reckoned one of the world’s finest beaches.

DRAGA BAŠĆANSKA
In the immediate vicinity of Baška (4 kilometers). The 45th parallel goes through the settlement.

BATOMALJ
This lies in the Baška valley. A church on an eminence is a well-known Marian shrine, Our Lady of Gorica.

JURANDVOR
This is located in fertile Baška polje (2 km north of Baška). It is famed in Croatian cultural history for the ancient stone-tablet with its Glagolitic inscription (ca 1100) that was found in the Early Romanesque St Lucy’s Church.

DOBRINJ
Dobrinj lies at the north eastern end of the island, some 21 kilometres from Krk Bridge, and is the only centre in the island that is not located alongside the sea. It is first mentioned in a Glagolitic script written deed of gift by the famous Dragoslav, dated 1 January 1100.

ŠILO
Located in the north east of the island, looking onto the Crikvenica Riviera on the mainland, 6 kilometres south east from Dobrinj (26 kilometres from Krk Bridge). As well as its traditional fishing and seafaring, Šilo is also developing into a pleasant holiday spot.

SOLINE, KLIMNO and ČIŽIĆI
Smaller settlements in the immediate vicinity of Dobrinj, located along the spacious Soline Bay, known for its pre-Roman salt pans and its medicinal mud for the treatment of bone ache. There are an anchorage for small boats and a shipyard in Klimno.

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Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit
Island of Krk - Visit

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