Island of Krk (Waking)

It is the largest island of the Croatia, connected to the mainland through the bridge omonimo. In XV century the Krk was one of the important possessions of the Croatian noble family of the (Frangipane). Struck by the bora winter on its western bare and rather barren zone, the island has been developed mainly on the eastern coast. Omišalj, on a hill of 82 meters, it is one of the ancient centers of the peninsula, revolt towards the coast of Rijeka. Many small sandy leads to a tourist marina and to Njivice, a modern bathing locality surrounded by lecceti.

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Malinska possesses a great hotel complex well camouflaged in the landscape, beyond to numerous spiaggette. Glavotok, the Franciscan convent of the town (XVI century) conserves the written glagothic alphabets. Numerous small white beaches offer ideal bathing corners.

Krk, an important strategic center of the past, the Curicum Roman is today a beautiful small town with a graceful historical center surrounded by walls. A Romanesque dome was realized on the remains of the ancient thermal springs and today it has remembrances(graves) of the Frankopani family. The castle is instead a center of summer cultural events. The beaches in the city are ideal for bathing.

Vrbnik is a picturesque location that rises on a rocky peak vertical to the sea, a prehistorics settlement.

Punat rises in a protected bay and today it hosts a modern seaside tourist site. At the center of the bay, on the small islands of Kosljun there is an ancient Franciscan convent with garden which is soothing. Not very far from Punat, there is pebbly beach of Stara Baška that reaches across a fresh aired panorama.

Baška faces the two kilometers wide bay and its the center of the seaside of the tourist island; packed narrow lanes, alongside the multicolored typical fishermen houses of the village, that slopeddown gently towards the sea. In the immediate inland, there are approximately wel marked paths approx 35 kilometers long.