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Pag (Croatia, Kvarner, Island Pag) is largest and most important place on island Pag. It is a town of sea salt. You can see production of salt in salt pans. Town Pag is also known by famous handicraft Pag gourds.

Island Pag is fifth island in Croatia by its size, 285 km2. It has 270 km long well-indented coast. Island Pag is known by its karst terrain, low grass, aromatic plants, sages... Those aromatic plants are base for grazing sheep. It is very known Pag cheese.

The island of Pag is one of the largest Adriatic islands. It is the 5th largest island with 284.50 km2. Its 270 kilometres of the coast make it the island with the longest coastline on the Adriatic, rich with coves, bays, lovely beaches and capes.

The largest bay, the bay of Pag, is rounded by 20 km of the beaches. Pag is unique due to its vegetation where trees have the rarest form. Therefore, Pag is the largest kingdom of rocky ground on the Adriatic, where only thin grass, low aromatic herb cover can grow. They make the foundation of food for the island’s sheep on the rocky ground, intersected by long dry stonewalls, giving a special flavor to the well known cheese in whole Croatia “Pag cheese”. The island also offers first class sheep cheese and lamb, as well as much seafood in restaurants menu.

Pag is also known as the town of the sea salt. The salt was the main reason why Pag was constructed in the 15th century. The original salt production through draining of the sea, which is brought in the small clay pools (saline), is still present on the island. These salt pools are not only an authentic part of the past but also an interesting photographic motive.

In 10th century name Pag is first time mentioned according to historical documents. In the same century town Pag is completely urbanised. 1 km south from Pag there are remains of settlement (monastery and church) which anteceded today`s town Pag. Bela IV granted town Pag with attributes of free royal town. In 1376. croatian king Ludovik I confirmed that status. In 1433. Pag gets Town Statue, one of the first documents of that kind in Croatia.

The town of Pag is also the town of needlework - the well known lace. Every lace is a unique item. The slow and demanding process of making them is kept through centuries and still lives in the streets of the old town.

The most interesting cultural and historical place on the island is the town of Pag and it is not the oldest place on the island. One kilometer to the south, there are the remains of a settlement (a fortified convent and a church) which was before today’s Pag – the Old town of Pag which the king Bela IV granted the status of the Royal Borough, on 30th March 1244. In 1443, the new town was started to build according to the strict designs of Juraj Dalmatinac, Renaissance sculptor and architect. There is the parish Church of the Assumption on the town’s biggest square.

This church is a valuable cultural and art monument because of its exterior and interior architecture, as well as the exponents. The town has beautifully carved doorposts on the entrances of the noblemen’s houses and yards, small baroque balconies, stone coats of arms from the period 15th - 18th century and a magnificent portal on the Duke’s palace. This well-preserved mediaeval town, whose center is the cultural monument, even today has the function of the administrative, cultural and mercantile center.

The Benedictine convent of St. Margarita, besides numerous valuable sacral relics and pictures, also has the tradition of making “baskotini”, the aromatic crunchy biscuits that are offered at the entrance of the convent.

On the main square there is a Parish Church of the Assumption, very valuable cultural monument. On entrances in feudal houses and yards you can see beautifuly carved jambs, coat of arms made of stone and beautiful portal on duke`s palace.

Pag`s bay is surrounded with 20 km of pebble and sandy beaches. It offers very beautiful nature, clean sea, wild exotic... In extand of shallow bay there is tested and valid medicinal mud.

Pag is today very developed. It has caffe bars, disco-clubs, shops, service industry, hotels, camps, roads... You can find accommodation in Pag in many hotels, private houses, apartments, rooms, villas, camps...

Attractions to see in Pag:

- Benedictine monasteries;
- Pag`s carnival;
- The golden ornaments;
- The Duke`s Palace;
- Town`s Tower;
- Palaces of families Mirkovic, Jadrulic, Matasovic, Portada;
- Tower Kamerlengo;
- St. Peter`s Abbey;
- The Church of St. Frane...

PAG LANDSCAPE
The bay of Pag is rounded by 20 km of the pebbly beaches. Beside 5 hotels, the town offers trendy equipped capacities in private accommodation. During the summer season, the winter (in February) and summer (at the end of July) time, there is a rich cultural and entertainment program. “Pag’s Slave girl”(a kind of a “miracle play”), folklore, the carnival wheel dance (so called “kolo”) accompanied by the brass band, old folk costumes, old songs and dances with “misnjice”, (a kind of an instrument) are the well known parts of the centuries-long tradition.

In a dry-land continuation of a shallow bay hides yet another natural wealth – mud which has been tested and proved to healing.

The nearby village with motor camp and marina in the bay Šimuni is a fishing village with a good tourist offers. The motor camp Šimuni is the biggest and the best-equipped camp on the island, located throughout the length of the pebbly beaches. Marina Šimuni is situated to the north of the town Šimuni in a sheltered little cove.

The characteristic relief of the island of Pag has shape been by the low shore area which spreads from the bay of Kosljun on to the northwest, up to the cove and port Proboj, and to the southeast up to the cove and port of Povljana. The people of Povljana were the last on the island that engaged in tourism. The big area of the village is covered with rich vineyards. There are no big tourist facilities in Povljana, so the offer bases on the private accommodation. Two sites that should be visited for sure are the early Croatian church of St. Nikola from the 11th century and the ornithological reserve Velo blato on the way to the village Vlasici.

On the south side of the island, to the north of the cove Šimuni and towards the islands Maun and Škrda, a village with a homonymous port - Mandre, has been raised as a place of individual tourism. It is a seaside resort of the inhabitants of the nearby Kolan – the only village on the island that is not situated near the seaside. In the mid 1980s, the first tourist village called Gajac was built to the north of the port Mandre.

Kosljun, Smokvica, Vlasici, Dinjiska and Miskovici are lovely and peaceful island towns that have nourished their future at tourism because of their geographical position on the coast and the kindness of nature.

The island of Pag can offer to its guest unusual shapes, wild exoticism, gentle oasis, hiking trails and shallow bays. Visiting all these places can last even several days. Going round the north side of the island is recommended only during the summer, when everyone with even a little bit of investigator mentality would have an unforgettable adventure away from the urban life, in a particular world of the rocks and the sea.

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