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Dugi otok - Cultural Heritage

Dalmatia - Zadar

Dugi otok (Long Island) is an island of diversity and contrast, and the largest island in the North Dalmatian islands, with a steep south-western coast, a series of stunning cliffs and coves, among which are Sakarun Park and Nature Park.

Long Island is known for its numerous cultural and historical monuments.

Since the most important religious monuments is the parish church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Salima. The church collection of monuments to two fragments of stone sculpture decorated threefold braids. This church was demolished in 1465, and was raised higher. 1561 g.izmjenjeno front of her, so she built a new portal of Renaissance forms and aspresion marked on it that year. Twenty years later, Mr 1581 destroyed her sanctuary in order to add a spacious three naves with a sacristy. Then, given a ground plan of a Latin cross.

Other churches are St.. Roko from 1644.g. Small chapel of Our Lady at the entrance to the port (punta Bluda) and Sv. Nikola.

Furthermore there are a number of others belonging to the mostly pre-Romanesque period, but of which only the foundations, such as the Sv. Viktor on Citoriju, Sv. John Stivanje in the field and the early Christian period: Crkvina or Sv. I heard Luke on the position and the remnants of a small church on the hill Koženjak.

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