Stari Grad

The small town and port at the end of the Starigrad bay. It used to be trade and naval center, and up to not long ago, the biggest settlement on the island. It has wine-cellar with modern equipment, hotels and swimming beach. Smaller beaches are located in the coves inside the bay, and the underwater fishing is possible along the northern coast of the bay.
The hunting-ground for rabbits and pheasants is nearby, on the peninsula Kabal. The first settlement Pharos was founded by the Greek colonists from the Greek island of Paros in 384 383 B.C. It was surrounded with defense walls traces of which survived till present time. The remains from the Roman and Early Christian period (large mosaic in Srednja ulica, that is covered with pavement; Early Christian baptistery beside the medieval church of St. Ivan from the 12th century; the remains of villa rustica on the site 'Pod Dolom'). Tvrdalj, fortified summer residence of Petar Hektorović, is located in the middle of the town. It has inscriptions in Croatian and Latin chiseled in the stone, fish-pond surrounded with arcades, park and ethnographic colection.
On the square, in front of the summer residence, is the sculpture of Hektorović, work of Ivan Mirković from 1956. There is also the renaissance church of St. Rok from 1569. The baroque parish church was built in the 17th century. The stone blocks from the defense walls of the former Greek settlement, together with a relief showing an antique merchant ship, were built in the belfry of that church that stands on its own. The Dominican monastery was founded in 1482, and burned in the time of the Turkish attacks in 1571. Later it was renewed and fortified.
The monastery keeps the old library, archive, collection of paintings, collection of stone monuments, numismatic collection and collection of fossils. Not far from the monastery is the small church of St. Nikola with wooden baroque gold-plated altar. In the eastern part of the town is the picturesque square Škor, shaped in the time of Baroque, with few family houses. The renaissance church of St. Jerolim is on the way to the swimming beach. 

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