Brela

With almost twenty new photographs I tried once again to find an answer to an old question, is it a mountain or the sea? Are the evergreens or people who are our hosts and inhabit this rigid therein on almost vertical slopes of Biokovo mountain just above around 6km long beach the reason why we are back?

Search for those answers bring us back to Brela along with thousands of tourist who daily fill close to 10.000 beds in private and hotel rooms throughout the summer months.

While indulging in conversation with other tourists, we hear, some of them come to Brela from elsewhere in Europe as pilgrims every year for many decades now. It seams, this is the place where all of the problems of everyday life will disperse in the light breeze, with sounds of crickets and in the crystal clear waves of the Adriatic sea while almost vertical slopes of the Bikovo mountain are hanging over you, the town and the sea.

Someone may say, it’s “location, location, location“, what is true as already described, but close proximity to the islands of Brac and Hvar as world class destinations on their own add to visual and gastronomical richness of the area. Both islands are accessible by local organized day trip tours or by ferry from Split.

Stroll along the beach in direction south will take you in no time to lively town of Baska Voda with it’s own charms and night life, just one of among 17 towns in total scattered along more than 60km of the coast on Makarska Riviera.

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Map of Croatia…

Just north from Brela is located city of Omis (25km by car) and a bit further Split (53km by car), latest being the largest city in Dalmatia, dating back to Roman empire when, in the 4th ct. was build Diocletian’s Palace by Emperor Diocletian.

Split, besides being connected with the rest of Europe via modern highway (our video taped in 2005) and by air, has also direct ferry connection to many of Croatian islands, including already mentioned Brac and Hvar, as well as to city of Ancona on the other side of the Adriatic Sea, in Italy (map).