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Hvar - one of the most popular Croatian islands
One of the most popular tourist places to visit in Croatia is definitely Hvar Island, especially in the summer. Even popular American singer Beyonce and her husband Jay Z visited this beautiful place.
"Hvar has long been one of the most popular Croatian islands. People talk of its verdant colour, fragrant air and mild climate, and at one time local hoteliers even had enough faith in the weather to offer a money-back guarantee if the temperature ever dropped below zero. And Hvar is undeniably beautiful – a slim, green slice of land punctured by jagged inlets and a steep central ridge streaked with the long grey lines of limestone spoil heaps built up over the centuries by farmers attempting to carve out patches of cultivable land. The island's main crop is lavender, which was introduced in the 1930s and covers the island in a spongy grey-blue cloak every spring before finding its way onto souvenir stalls across the island.
Intensively but tastefully developed as a tourist resort, the island's capital, Hvar Town, is one of the Adriatic's most bewitching – and best preserved – historic towns, and is a good base from which to explore the rest of the island, which is fairly low-key in comparison. Buses out of Hvar Town either take the old road across the central ridge, or speed through the recently built tunnel to reach the northern side of the island, where Stari Grad and Vrboska boast some good beaches, old stone houses and an unhurried, village feel. Jelsa, farther east, can't quite compete with its two neighbours in terms of rustic charm, but has more accommodation than Vrboska, which is only a forty-minute walk away. East of Jelsa, the island narrows to a long, thin mountainous strip of land that extends all the way to isolated Sućuraj, which is linked to the mainland by regular ferries, although there's virtually no public transport between here and the rest of the island."
Text from MSN travel.
Post je objavljen 22.08.2012. u 10:09 sati.