The
water is crystal clear, wonderfully clean and invites you to many
activities. Swimming, snorkeling, learning to scuba dive, surfing,
boat trips around the island or to the mainland and rafting tours.
Culturally interested people can choose from a number of
landmarks
Apart from visiting the many parish churches and
cloisters you should also see: the Dragon Cave near Murvica,
the old Christian basilica in Povlja, the parish
church
from 1566 in Pucisca, the BLACA hermitage,
which you can
reach after a one hour march or the Heracles from Roman times
carved into stone near Splitska.
The town of Pucisca is also interesting, which
looks back on
centuries of stonemason
art and tradition. The “white stone of
Brac” is
obtained from the quarries here and was used, amongst other things,
for the Diocletian Palace in Split, the Parliament
Building
in Berlin, the Parliament in Vienna and
partially in the White
House in Washington.
Supetar – the
lively island capital with about 2500 inhabitants – is the
arrival
town when you take the car ferry from Split, the crossing takes about
an hour.
Supetar offers all important contact points such as
a post office, banks, shops, a gas station, a pharmacy, a hospital, a
weekly market, souvenir shops, cafes and a lot of nightlife. There
are tennis courts, car and bike rentals and also boat rentals.
The
next town is the small village of Splitska, not yet
touched by
tourism and in a romantic location. At the harbor (400 m away from
the PANORAMA) there is a small supermarket where you can buy your
bread in the morning. There are no hotel complexes here or disturbing
discos.
After another 5 minutes by car, you will reach the
town of Postira (population ca. 1500). This is a town which has
stayed original with much lively commotion around the harbor. The
romantic settlement is surrounded by tangerine plantations, palm
trees and blooming oleander plants. Postira offers a bit more action
than its neighbor Splitska due to its size, but you still will not
find any large and impersonal hotel complexes here. The sand beach
LOVRECINA is only a few kilometers away from here, especially
children appreciate this cove since it stays very shallow for about
25 meters into the sea.