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 About 20km beyond Dubrava, the twin settlements of Ston and Mali Ston straddle the neck of land which joins Pe1ješac to the mainland. STON (sometimes called Veliki – or" Great" – Ston to differentiate it from Mali Ston), an important salt-producing town, was swallowed up by Dubrovnik in 1333, becom… |
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Pelješac
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 East of Orebic, the main road twists up into the mountains before reaching, after 15km, the turning to the lazy port of TRPANJ (served by 4 buses daily from Orebić), which lies at the end of a ravine on Pe1ješac's northern coast. |
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Pelješac
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 West of Orebić, the road follows the coast past the relatively unspoiled villages of Kučiše and Viganj, both of which have shingle beaches, a string of shore-side campsites, and - in the case of Viganj at least - a burgeoning windsurfing scene. |
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Pelješac
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 A short ferry-hop from Korčula, the small town of OREBIC was a subsidiary trading outlet of the Dubrovnik Republic for almost five hundred years, and later enjoyed a brief period of extraordinary prosperity during the nineteenth-century revival of Adriatic trade, during which the town's merchants se… |
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Pelješac
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 Just across the Pelješac: channel (Pelješki kanal) from Korcula is the PELJEŠAC PENINSULA, a slim, mountainous finger of land which stretches for some 90km from Lovište in the west to the mainland in the east. |
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