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 Twenty kilometres east across the mountains, STARI GRAD is a popular and busy resort, though more laidback than Hvar Town, straggling along the side of a deep bay. The old part of Stara Grad has been pleasantly renovated, and backs onto the main street as it twists its way along the waterside. Just … |
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 Occupying a headland just southeast of Hvar Town's ferry dock is the Franciscan monastery (Franjevači samostan; Mon–Fri 10am–noon & 5-7pm), founded in 1461 by a Venetian sea captain in thanks for deliverance from shipwreck. There's a small collection of paintings in the former refectory, including a… |
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 A couple of hundred metres west of Trg svetog Stjepana, slightly set back from the shoreline, are the remains of a Dominican monastery (you can see its surviving bell tower from the citadel), an important centre of religious and political life until it was expropriated by French administrators in 18… |
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 The rest of the old town backs away north from the square in an elegant confusion of twisting lanes and alleys hiding a series of understated architectural gems. Just uphill the cathedral, the diminutive Church of the Holy Spirit (Crkva svetog Duha) has a small but striking Romanesque relief of God… |
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 Towering over the eastern end of the square is the trefoil facade of St Stephen's Cathedral (Katedrala sveti Stjepan; no fixed opening hours - try mornings), a sixteenth-century construction whose spindly four-storey campanile employs the typical Venetian device of having one window on the first flo… |
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