Looking back towards Orebic. The local seamen built their cemetery next to the monastery

Orebic

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June 5th 2013
05 June 2013 We bravely had a before breakfast swim in the nearby beach which unusually for Croatia was sandy. The Adriatic waters turned out to be quite cool! The morning was spent on a pleasant walk to a 15th century Franciscan monastery set 152m above sea level and with beautiful views over to Korcula and Orebic. It was then a drive through the vine covered mountains of the ... read more

Europe » Croatia

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The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a feder... ... read more