Gradac

Gradac is the southernmost traveler locality of the Makarska riviera in southern Dalmatia, Croatia. It is situated halfway among Split and Dubrovnik. The city of Ploce is 12 km south of Gradac, whilst the city of Makarska is 42 km north. The metropolis of Gradac is a middle of a municipality which includes the places: Brist, Drvenik, Gradac, Podaca and Zaostrog and marks the cease of the riviera. The Gradac place changed into inhabited before prehistoric instances.

Numerous stone mounds relationship lower back to the Bronze and Early Iron Ages were located in the area. In Roman instances, the Gradac area became most likely the seat of the Roman civitas Biston, which as a coastal center belonged to the colony of Narona, an essential Roman stronghold on what's now Croatian territory. At the locality of Gradina a cornice fragment of the monumental constructing from the 2^nd to 3rd century changed into determined, as well as Roman coin pieces. Near the Laguna resort have been observed many tombs, as a result it's miles idea that on this vicinity there was once a Roman necropolis.