An excursion aboard our boats Ina and Dida Frane, is unique because it gives you a tour of the beautiful Kornati National Park where you can see amazing Kornati cliffs and the Nature Park Telašćica with its salt lake!
You will visit almost 200 islands in a single day during this excursion!
You will cruise through the national park beneath the cliffs, with the view of the highest cliff Klobučar. Around 11.15 we will enter the middle channel where lunch on board is served. After that cruise continues to church Our Lady of Tarac and next to the Tureta fortress from 16th century.
Our Lady of Tarac on the island of Kornat is a one-nave late Romanesque church built on an early Christian basilica site, most probably from that older church's remains. Once a year, on the first Sunday in July, masses are held here. Then hundreds of boat anchors in the bay for blessing, which, in addition to religious significance, also is a tourist attraction. Once upon a time, the feast was only agricultural, and only the field was blessed. As the farmers gradually turned to the sea and fishing, the blessing spread to the sea and ships.
On a tour of the Kornati, you will see Tureta, the best preserved of the Byzantine fortifications from the 6th century, the time of Justinian, built to protect and control navigation on the Adriatic Sea. Her military crew monitored the Kornati Channel.
You will make your own way to the meeting points