korcula island, dalmatia - croatia, HR

the green marco polo island korcula HR [curzola IT, melaina korkyra (= black corfu) GR] in the adriatic sea was the main purpose of our summer trip to south dalmatia in croatia. strange and sad at the same time, all our stop-overs were much nicer than korcula itself 😳. our pain points? the really bad and loveless hotel lumbarda, where the owners did not give a damn about the tourists. it was also too hot + too long (2 weeks) + too crowded 😈😥

our lovely stop-overs:

• zagreb, HR
• sibenik, HR
• split, HR
• bosnia and herzegovina, BA

our sad korcula island experience:

there are nice green forests all over the island, mostly black pines 🌲

why to write a story, when we've my memos here? 😇

• 47km x 8km
• no rivers, no local water supply, but a pipeline from the only 2 km far croatian mainland
• peljesac peninsula? we've passed the peljesac bridge on the 1st day of its opening for the public, so we did not need 2 ferry transports to our holiday island
• sveti ilija mountain, 961m, peljesac, crotia
• jadrolinija ferry from orebic to korcula 
• do not visit the unkind hotel lumbarda in lumbarda. even if the stuff was friendly, the owners + the quality + the pricing + the mood were like once-and-never-again-experience
• water taxi boat trip to the badija island + deer + franciscan monastery
• vrnik + planjak islands
• mr. cicada
• the holy chair
• fortress hum
• museum vela luka, korcula ~ greek hellenic silver coins
• smokvica village
• adria - adriatic - adriatic sea
• pupnat bay (pupnatska luka)
• cevapcici / fish / pizza food
• etc.

HISTORY: 

• prehistoric cave (vela spila) in vela luka. in the last ice age was the sea level 100m lower than today and korcula was a part of the european mainland 🌊
• illyrians
• melaina korkyra (= black corfu), settled by greek colonists from corfu in 6th century B.C.
• roman province illyricum (200 B.C.)
• slavic settlement in 6th century => croats & croatians 😂
• city of korcula, HR (CRO)
• in 998 under venetian control (IT)
• marco polo (captured in the battle of curzola in 1298 as genoa defeated venice)
• austro-hungarian empire
• yugoslavia
• croatia
• unknown future

enjoy few pictures:

peljesac bridge, 2.4 km long

orebic, peljesac peninsula

jadrolinija ferry from orebic to korcula

the historic part of the town korcula

(picture made by my friend thomas w.)

(picture made by my friend thomas w.)

(picture made by my friend thomas w.)

restaurant silk ~ their (expensive) asian dishes 😋 were a really pleasant variation to the standard 

cevapcici / fish / pizza food out there 

STOP. do not enter. DANGER 😈

lumbarda, nice view from our hotel room / balcony

tourist office lumbarda meets mr. cicada  🎶

our beach in lumbarda ~ view to the vrbnik island and the grey sveti ilija 

mountain (961m) on the peljesac peninsula

the old town korcula was only 5 km from lumbarda away

korcula used to be venetian as the fallen st. marco lion shows ya

city museum, korcula

marco polo shop

marco polo house

two of us

what a nice sunset on korcula 🌄

there was a war in yugoslavia (ca. 1990 - 1995?)

blue meets blue

taxi boat boat trip to the badija island + deer + franciscan monastery

mr. + mr. deer

the other side of the korcula island: vela luka

prehistoric cave (vela spila) in vela luka. in the last ice age was the sea level 100m lower

 than today and korcula was a part of the european mainland 🌊

astro-hungarian fortress hum (1890 - 1902) above vela luka, korcula island

the holy chair

vela luka

vela luka

museum vela luka, korcula ~ greek hellenic silver coins

smokvica village

pupnat bay (pupnatska luka), korcula island

more pictures here.