Details About Losinj

Loinj is known by its sea tradition, its special climate which cured the first visitor of the climatic medical center in 1885. This tourist tradition was started and supported by many honorable men of this archipelago. Ambroz Harai was one of them. He did a lot for this area from the declaration of the climatic medical center (1892.) till the afforestation of not planted part of the island which is today hundreds of years old pine-tree forest. There is villa Karolina (1898.) which was built during the rule of Josef F Lovasy, Austro-Hungarian nobleman, Annunziata, a small church of Mary's announcement at the cape of the ikat bay, a place where women used to wait and prey for their husbands to return safely. The bridge which is placed at the entering to Mali Loinj, above the channel which was ditched through the narrowest part of the island, makes two separated peace's of land that are connected by the movable bridge. It makes possible for smaller boats and yachts to enter the port.