Situated in a deep bay, whose eastern coast abounds with large pebble beaches (Gusarica, Nova Posta, Velo Zalo), Komiza offers excellent visitor opportunities: quality accommodation facilities - hotel, apartments, and a number of cultural and historic sites - monastery, fortresses. It is famous for its fishermen (fishermen from Komiza are also known in San Pedro, California), so that fish and other seafood are traditionally served daily. Famous are also Komiza wines and carobs.
Sports and recreational facilities include three boccia courts, as well as various playgrounds for basketball, handball and football. Water sports and diving (during the diving season) are also very interesting.
The special atmosphere of summer evenings is supplemented by performances of harmony-singing groups or children's choirs on the coastal promenade or in one of local restaurants. Exhibitions and other cultural events are regularly organized, especially when the Croats from the United States of America, actually Komiza natives, visit their mother country.
KOMIZA, a town and harbour at the foot of the Hum hill (587 m), on the western coast of the island of Vis; population 2,476. An average air temperature in January is 8.9 °C. Economy is based on farming, vine and vegetable growing, fishing and fish processing, seafaring and in recent times on tourism. On the eastern coast of the bay are large sand and pebble beaches (Gusarica, Nova Posta, Velo Zalo). Komiza has regular ferry connections with Split; the regional road connects Komiza with Vis. |
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Vis, an important stronghold of the antique period, where different cultures followed one another, is today a picturesque town offering a mixture of a modern seaside resort and the centuries-old past. Nice sandy and pebble beaches (Parja, Rogacic, Mala and Vela Svitnja, etc.) are situated near the town. Walking along the coast from Luka to Kut or driving through the interior to Komiza, with vineyards by the road (wine cellar in Podspilje) represent a real enjoyment.
Good quality accommodation in hotels or apartments, unpolluted environment with the crystal clear sea and marine scenery as well as the local specialities - seafood from the cleanest part of the Adriatic, various sports and recreation opportunities, they all constitute the offer of Vis, an island which emerged from a long period of isolation (tourists from abroad have been allowed to visit the island since 1989).
Music and other events are organized during the summer season.
VIS, a town and port in the eastern part of the northern coast of the island of Vis; popu-lation 1,932. Chief occupations are farming, wine production, fishing and tourism. The town of Vis is situated on the regional road. Ferry port, with ferry connections to Split. |
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