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visit Gradac!

In medieval times in Gradac region there stood an old town of Lapčan (Labinac), which is mentioned by the great Byzantine emperor Constantin. Under its current name, Gradac is mentioned for the first time in 1649. It owes its name to a fortress that once stood on a high ground above today’s church of St. Michael, built during the Cretan war (1645-1669). There is a preserved drawing that depicts a naval-land battle between the Turks and Venetians near Gradac in 1666. On that drawing the tower was set ablaze.
Gradac has been in tourism for more than 100 years. The first hotel - "Lavčenj" opened in 1910th, with approx. 50 beds.
EVENTS: Tournaments in beach volleyball, basketball, water polo, Great summer masquerade; Fishing festivals; Brudetijada; Central National Thanksgiving Day celebration; Folk Festival St. Michael - patron of Gradac, and numerous other entertainment.
If you are asking for a special detail connected to the experience of Gradac, it’s hard to decide between geographical relief specificities that made possible for the sun to hide behind a hill after its first sunrise, so it could rise for the second time on the same morning, or even seven springs of high quality drinking water that mixes with underground streams in the sea into a medicinal mixture which used to bring legendar queen Teuta to take her baths here.
Or is the most impressive detail a ten kilometer long stretch of pebble beaches that hug the big blueness along 16 kilometers of shoreline, or some of 36 so similar, yet s specific pebble beaches of Gradac Riviera?
Direct personal experience of nature, mild climate, and clear sea of exceptional transparency will attract some tourists, while others will come because of the preserve tradition and indigenous customs of this coastal region. Cove of fertility in Zaostrog, has on the other hand, a legend of its own...

EXCURSIONS:

 

  • Makarska 35 km from apartments

  • Dubrovnik 100 km from apartments

  • Split 95 km from apartments

  • Bačina lake 5 km from apartments

  • Međugorje 50 km from apartments

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