Gradac

Gradac is the southernmost visitor locality of the Makarska riviera in southern Dalmatia, Croatia. It is situated midway between Split and Dubrovnik. The metropolis of Ploce is 12 km south of Gradac, even as the town of Makarska is 42 km north. The city of Gradac is a middle of a municipality which consists of the locations: Brist, Drvenik, Gradac, Podaca and Zaostrog and marks the quit of the riviera. The Gradac place became inhabited earlier than prehistoric times. Numerous stone mounds dating back to the Bronze and Early Iron Ages had been discovered inside the vicinity.

In Roman instances, the Gradac area turned into maximum probably the seat of the Roman civitas Biston, which as a coastal middle belonged to the colony of Narona, an critical Roman stronghold on what's now Croatian territory. At the locality of Gradina a cornice fragment of the monumental building from the 2d-third century become located, as well as Roman coin pieces. Near the Laguna lodge had been located many tombs, for this reason it is thought that on this region there was as soon as a Roman necropolis.