Unlike other island resorts, which are either coastal or continental type, Osor is an ancient city at the crossroads of inland and ocean views. It is accommodation at the junction between the islands of Cres and Losinj are a prerequisite for the development of this settlement, his boom, after the disaster.
For the sons repeatedly been mentioned that these islands were settled long ago in prehistory, but still recognizable roads and paths are witness to a very lively traffic that flowed between the former settlements. A large part of the island traffic is being funneled into Osor. The island's roads is directly passed through the town, not like today, outside the city walls.
Because of the way coastal navigation and well-sheltered bays in the vicinity, Osor in shipping traffic was almost inevitable port. It is assumed that the Kavuada (Cavanella) strait that now separates the islands of Cres and Losinj, dug sometime during the Roman rule. However, it is very likely that previously had been charged or otherwise ships transported overland (on rollers), so that the passage still had to pay a fee. Since the first payment was done in kind, after the money, the city is developing very fast exchange of goods, trade, various crafts and the like.
Rulers and regimes that ruled Osor because these are the reasons for controlling traffic through the town, and collected taxes. Today's Osor city museum. Wherever we turn we drive or a hoe, we find traces of the past.
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