Gracac

GRACAC, a town in the southern part of Lika, in the middle of the Gracac Field around the lower course of the Otuca river and a limestone plateau Gradina (618 m); elevation 560 m; population 4,101. Economy is based on farming, livestock breeding, as well as on food, textile, leather and footwear industries. Graac is located at the intersection of the main roads Gospic - Gracac (M6.02), Karlovac - Zadar (M13.01, E71) and the regional roads which connect the central part of Croatia and the northern part of the Croatian Primorje and Lika, with the northern and central Dalmatia. It also lies on the railroad Zagreb - Split.
In the vicinity of the Catholic church are traces of a mediaeval town Gradina it was the seat of the old Otucka parish. The town was first mentioned in 1302. In 1509 it was owned by Ivan Karlovic; in the period 1527-1687 under Turkish rule. The Baroque parish church of St. George from the 18th century was badly damaged in the Second World War. The church features a late Baroque epitaph of Count Knezevic (1781). On the cemetery near the Otuca is a 3-m high monolithic cross, on the tomb of Ivan Balenovic (16th c.). 

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