Discover the charm and treasures of the Golden Island – cruise through its beautiful and diverse places, and visit its millennial monuments, museums and galleries…
The traditional hospitality and kindness of your hosts and the islanders in general will make your choice of accommodation the easiest task in the world. The Golden Island will win you over and you’ll be back again in no time…
Take advantage of the vicinity and accessibility of the Golden Island of Krk to explore its impressive history and heritage through breath-taking stories and curiosities that make it miraculous and mysterious at the same time. Or simply search for your favourite beach bursting with sounds, scents and colours…
Krk’s tourism owes its success largely to the island’s incredible culinary offer and the hospitality of local people. Make a toast with a glass of Vrbnik Žlahtina, and be sure to take some homemade brandy and dried figs as a farewell souvenir to remind you of the Golden Island.
Embark on a lifetime adventure and explore the Golden Island through its diverse outdoor offer. Revive your body and soul with numerous wellness programmes, and choose some of the many excursions to round off your holiday…
Experience the Golden Island of Krk through its impressive offer of cultural and entertainment events, leaning on the local tradition and bringing the best of the past and the present. Enjoy numerous outdoor events, discover the island’s stunning nature and spoil your palate at amazing food festivals.
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Take advantage of the vicinity and accessibility of the Golden Island of Krk to explore its impressive history and heritage through breath-taking stories and curiosities that make it miraculous and mysterious at the same time. Or simply search for your favourite beach bursting with sounds, scents and colours…
Krk is an island with a rich cultural and historical heritage that needs to be experienced. Small, winding roads dominate within the old centres of almost every village on the island, with each parish church being unique and recognizable.
If you would like to get to know the islanders’ way of life in the past, you should certainly visit the homeland museums with their ethnographic and sacral collections, the numerous galleries and the Vitezić library in Vrbnik. The small island of Košljun, nearby Punat is a unique cultural and historical place that should certainly be visited during your stay on the island of Krk.
The Glagolitc alphabet was created by the stylisation of Greek cursive around the middle of the 9th century.
Saint Cyril is mainly mentioned as the author of the Glagolitic alphabet who used this alphabet for his translation of ecclesiastical books into the ancient Slavic language.
The Glagolitic alphabet appears in two variants: rounded and squared. Supposedly these characteristics were developed later. The oldest Croatian monument written in Glagolitic alphabet, the Baška tablet, is partly written in the round variant, but the specific Croatian variant of the Glagolitic alphabet is the squared variant.
It was first mentioned in Croatia in the 12th century and it is most common in coastal parts of Croatia (Istria, the Croatian Littoral, Dalmatia, Zadar and Kvarner island, initially on the islands of Krk, Cres and Lošinj).
In 1851, a young priest from Baška, Petar Dorčić found a large stone tablet inscribed with Glagolitic symbols in the soil of the early Romanic church of St. Lucy in Jurandvor, near Baška. The text written on the tablet was of great interest for scientists of the period. It became an important source of information regarding the development of the Croatian Glagolitic alphabet as well as the Croatian language and culture. It proved the existence of the Croatian state fromits earliest days; mentioning the name of the Croatian king, Zvonimir and marks the northern borders of his kingdom on the island of Krk.
The text on the tablet was partly read in 1865 and completely in 1875. It was believed that the tablet included secret data, but it was later established that the tablet was the certification of the donation of land which king Zvonimir donated to the Benedictine monastery of Saint Lucy. The tablet lists the witnesses of that deed of donation and describes the time in which the donation took place. It can be established from that part of the text that the tablet dates back to 1100. In 1934, the tablet was, transferred to the Academy of Science and Art in Zagreb where it still stands today. A copy of it is also exhibited in the church of St. Lucy. The church and the partly renewed monastery complex today attracts many visitors.
Small copies of the tablet can be bought at the souvenir shops.
CONTACT
“az”, AGENCY FOR CULTURE AND TOURISM
Dana Kružić
Baška 51523, Jurandvor bb
Tel/fax. 051/860-184
Mob. 091/511-3943
e-mail: azjurandvor@yahoo.com
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We could say that the island of Krk is more than rich with historical monuments. And their content is known from prehistoric times to the present. However, there are a large number of monuments which cannot all be named, so we’ll mention just a few: Read more
Tourismusverband der Insel Krk
Trg sv. Kvirina 1, 51500 Krk
Tel. +385 51 221 359
Fax +385 51 222 336
visitisland@krk.hr