Stomorska

Stomorska is a place and a cadastral district on the island of Solta or municipality in the Split- Dalmatia Croatia in the Adriatic Sea across from Split west of Brac. Stomorska is the oldest port town of Solta and has 241 inhabitants. He is gastronomically well developed and has a marina.

Geography

The village is connected to the mainland (Split) via catamaran ferries. Car ferries to eleven kilometers away Rogač. Stomorska located in the eastern part of the island in a narrow bay on the north coast and forms the end point of the state road D111. To Cadastral The area around the harbor and several smaller bays on the north coast east to Gornja Krušica.

Demography

Economy

The island was from the 14th century until 1905 in the possession of the nobility of Split or the Catholic Church. The proximity to the city, about 17 km by boat, the island predestined to an important supplier for wood, lime, meat, fish, oil, wine, almonds, carob, fig and honey. Olive oil and wine were exported with wooden sailing ships to Italy. Some of the ships have been preserved. As the hinterland to Gornje Selo was the place because of the lime kiln famous. On the western shore of the bay is still an old lime kiln to see, which was built in 1916. Now home to some fishermen and sailors. The main branch income is tourism. The place has a good gastronomic infrastructure. In particular, from the east side of the bay along the north coast there are already many second homes and apartments.

History

Stomorska is the oldest coastal village of Solta, which was extended from the 17th century. The settlement is much older. Above the village there is a number of prehistoric barrows. On the Vela Straža there was an Illyrian fortress. While settled at the time of almost a thousand years of Roman peace on the coast, this was dangerous back in the Middle Ages. Since the island lay in the borders between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, was the danger of looting and robberies, especially by the pirates of Omis, great, which is why there were only places in the interior of the island for centuries. In the 14th century Stomorska is mentioned as the Bay of the inhabitants of two kilometers away Gornje Selo. The name is derived from the church of the Madonna Stomorina. At this time there was a monastery on the island monasterium sanctae Mariae de Solta, probably possessed lands around Stomorska how the noble family Cindro. The Bučić family from Hvar once ran a small shipyard. The Philippinermönche of Split settled families to agricultural labor. The fort at the end of the bay was built by the Cindros. A casella, a small house, a disinfection building for boats, built in the 18th century. Similar there is in Rogač, between Rogač and Nečujam, Maslinica and Stracinska. The jetty with mooring in the bay was built in the early 19th century. The Church of St. Nicholas on the east side of the village is from the year 1870.

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