Robinson Tourism - Adriatic Sea

The Southern Side of the Pasman Island Overlooking the Kornati Archipelago pt.1

Pašman is an island in the Zadar archipelago. A picturesque Pasman Channel, with dozens of small islands dotted about it, separates the island from Zadar and Biograd. A number of small fishing ports with lots of greenery and sand beaches are situated along its beautiful sunny shore. The sea current changes course every six hours and thus put the surrounding sea among the cleanest in the Adriatic.

Mediterranean climate bore a reach plant and animal world, various kinds of officinal and aromatic herbs and a sea bed filed with all kinds of shells and fish that can be found in the Adriatic Sea. The majority of inhabitants in typical island settlements, such as Zdrelac, Banj, Dobropoljana, Nevidane, Mrljane, Barotul, Mali Pasman, Pasman, Kraj, Uginic and Tkon, are fishermen and farmers by tradition, but recently they also took up tourist trade and developed a rich variety of tourist facilities – rooms and apartments for renting, summer cottages, boarding houses, camps, restaurants and taverns which offer sea-fruits and home-grown food. http://www.sea-islands.blogspot.com

Our famous Dalmatian cuisine and warm atmosphere in cosy Mediterranean ambient of island’s restaurants – Dalmatian taverns called “konoba” – guarantee taking a supreme pleasure in home-grown food and sea specialities (Dalmatian smoked ham, cheese, lamb, shellfish, freshly caught fish, crabs, Dalmatian wines and aperitifs).

Thanks to its position on the most indented part of the Croatian Adriatic, this area provides excellent opportunities for nautical tourism and navigation. People have inhabited the island of Pasman since ancient times. One can still see the remains of Illyrian settlements and hill-forts, archaeological finds dating from Ancient Roman times, mosaics, the stone statue of St. Michael from the 12th century in Neviđane, and plenty of other historical monuments. St. Kuzma and Damjan Benedictine monastery near Tkon was built in the 12th century on the foundations of an early Christian church and represented an important Glagolitic centre.

The monastery is decorated with a Gothic crucifix dating from the beginning of the 15th century, a Renaissance cloister, a dining room and a museum with an especially valuable painting of Madonna with baby Jesus and John the Baptist.

Organizing sport activities, such as tournaments between local people and the tourists, has become a tradition on the island. Five-a-side soccer tournaments in Nevidane and Pasman, basketball in Dobropoljana, and the traditional regatta are major sport and social events. Night racing through torches in Pasman, in which both tourists and local people take part, is a special attraction.

Ecologically preserved landscape, vineyards, fields and olive-groves right next to sandy and pebble beaches are the right choice for those who prefer a vacation away from noise and crowded places.