Omišalj

Omišalj [ ɔmiʃaʎ ] ( dt: Moschau, ital: Castelmuschio ) is a small coastal town in the northwest of the island of Krk, Croatia. The population number of the city itself is 1,868 (2011), that of the entire municipal area, which is also the near Njivice ( dt: Sniewitz ) miteinschließt, 2983 ( 2011).

Omišalj is one of the oldest cities of Krk. It was founded by the Romans as Fulfinium in the 3rd century. Your strategic importance, from his position on top of a 80 m high rock, from which one could overlook the Bay of Kvarner. From the time of its foundation, the remains of an early Christian basilica come. In the 12th century Omišalj Castri musculi was called (from the Latin ad musculi " for molluscs ").

In modern Omišalj is the international airport of Rijeka and a tank farm. At the latter ends the southern continuation of the international oil pipeline friendship. Further transport to the whole world via oil tanker could not be implemented so far because of environmental protests.