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Krk Island - City of Krk

Kvarner

Among the 1185 islands in Croatia, one is gold, Insula Aurea-island of Krk. Located in the Kvarner Bay, has been recognized as one of the most attractive tourist destinations.

City of Krk, but the legendary blind Greek Homer in his famous poem mentioned Koureto, which the researchers associated just with the inhabitants of the island. Krk is the cathedral, the famous castle town Frankopanski motive. Early Christian basilica built in the 5th century on the site of Roman baths. Over the years, which came at the Cathedral of affairs of different styles, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque through to today. For the first time in written documents in the 1186th, and is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.

The castle was gradually emerging from several elements. He is now a rectangular building, measuring 27 m within a 17 m wide, while its height perimeter walls of 9 m. In the north, according Kamplin has a round tower. On the west corner there is a square frankopanska courthouse, on the east by the sea square tower, and on the west side of the other guard.

In fact, Christianity came to town early, which speak Illyrian epitaphs. The old town is entered through four doors and Krk intensively developed outside the walls only in the last few decades. These city walls with their doors, built back in the pre-Roman times and retained the same place today, albeit with many rearrangements, were determined by the internal layout of the city.

From the early Middle Ages there are traces of Krk in catering, and the first guests were the Czechs. Since then Krk with a series of new hotels and camps become very very famous in the center of a wider European scale.

Krk town today is the administrative, political, economic and religious center of the island.

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