Apartments Korcula - island of Korcula Croatia

Apartments Korcula - island of Korcula Croatia

ABOUT:  Korcula Croatia

The town of Korcula (3232 inhabitants) is the historical, cultural and political centre and the historical harbour of the island. It was built on a small peninsula that limits the passing between the island and the mainland on only 1270 metres. The possibility to supervise the navigation of galleys and sailing-vessels on this spot was the reason for the formation of the small town-fortress. It fulfilled this service for different governors. The town developed hastily from the 13th century, in the form it can be seen today. Those were the years of the origin of the Constitution, the coming of the governors Zorzi and the century of Marco Polo. The walls and towers were raised higher and stronger in those times, and the houses and churches were built higher and more comfortable. The town was to be able to accept up to 6000 inhabitants on the peak of its power in the 16th century. For defence purposes the citizens closed themselves into secure walls, the parts in the suburbs were forbidden for any building, and the two monasteries out of town - the Dominican monastery of St. Nicholas, 500 m westwards of the town and the Franciscan monastery on the island of Badija - were often the target of enemy and robbery attacks. Not earlier than in the 17th century starts the building of the first workshops in front of the town, and in the 18th century the first houses outside the walls of the towns were built. In the 19th century the part of town St. Nicholas (westwards of the town) and Borak (southwards and eastwards of the town) were built. Between 1921 and 1941 starts the building of the hotels and villas in the Luka bay - eastwards of the town, and westwards of the town in the Strecica bay, and from the 1970-ies onwards lasts the intensive construction in the parts around the Luka bay - Zagradac, Ekonomija, St. Anthony, Domince and Soline.

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