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Since
Hvar lay in the middle of the main sea routes,
history has left here many traces, maybe more
than on any other Adriatic island. Constant
fights over the island can only confirm its
importance and value of its territory.. Each
of the conquistadors left their traces in the
history, a mark for the future...
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The
history of the island goes back into the prehistoric
period, and the finds from two most important
caves prove that: Grapčeva and Markova špilja
(caves) substantiate the existence of life on
the island 6000 years old. Characteristic examples
of painted pottery enabled us to identify the
so-called Hvar culture (around 3500 to 2500 BC).
The oldest depiction of a ship in Europe was found
on a pottery fragment in Grapceva špilja.
The Ionian Greeks, the Parans, predominantly as
an agrarian colony, founded the town of Pharos
in 385 BC. The map of land division of the fertile
plain of Stari Grad is an exceptional document
2500 years old and belongs to that period. It
is today one of 3 oldest plains in the world with
preserved Greek land division. |
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After
the fall of the Syracuse Empire in the middle
of the 4th century BC, Pharos was without protection
from invasion by the Illyrians. Pharos came under
the rule of the Romans in 219 BC and was called
Pharia. In the period of the Roman rule villae
rusticae were built over the whole island, mostly
in the town of Hvar, Stari Grad and around the
present-day Jelsa. |
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In
the early Middle Ages Hvar was under Croatian
auspices. In 1420 Hvar came under the Venetians
and remained so until the fall of the Venetian
Republic in 1797. Hvar became the main Venetian
port in the eastern part of the Adriatic. Later
on Hvar came under the Austrian rule (1797) until
the arrival of the French (1806), and their constant
fight marked that period.
The Austrians reoccupied the island in the 2nd
half of the 19th century and in the beginning
of the 20th century bringing a period of relative
prosperit.Around that time all the island ports
were rebuilt. Its prominence in nautical and trade
domination became quite large, so in that period
there were four consulates in the town of Hvar:
Greek, Parmesan, Papal and Napolitan. The first
meteorological station in Croatia was established
in the tower of the monastery of Veneranda in
1858. |
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Weather
conditions helped to promote tourism on Hvar.
As a result, the first tourist society in Europe
was founded in 1868. |
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In
1918 the Italian army occupied the island and
the occupation lasted until 1921, when Hvar, along
with the whole of Croatia, joined the Kingdom
of Yugoslavia, succeeded by the Republic of Yugoslavia
after the Second World War. |
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Hvar
obtained a new administrative position in the
territorial reorganisation that took place after
the recognition of Croatia as an independent state
(1992)... |
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Outstanding
palaces and churches, valuable paintings and sculptures,
important literal and music works have been created
over a long period and still the artists find
the inexhaustible inspiration in the beautiful
island...
Hanibal Lucic, Petar Hektorovic, Vinko Pribojevic,
Miksa Pelegrinovic... only a few of the protagonists
of the Croatian culture who lived and worked on
the island. |
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| Apartments
Hvar,
private accommodation
Kralja
Tomislava 13, Stari Grad island Hvar
Croatia |
tel:
+385 (0) 21 765 454
gsm:+385(0)91 592 69 53 |
 info@apartmani-hvar.com
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