Hvar

Hvar is a Croatian island inside the Adriatic Sea, located off the Dalmatian coast, lying among the islands of Brac, Vis and Korcula. Approximately 68 km lengthy with a high east-west ridge of Mesozoic limestone and dolomite, the island of Hvar is unusual in the vicinity for having a huge fertile coastal simple, and clean water springs. Its hillsides are protected in pine forests, with vineyards, olive groves, fruit orchards and lavender fields within the agricultural regions.

The weather is characterised with the aid of moderate winters, and heat summers with many hours of light. The island has 11,103 residents, making it the 4th most populated of the Croatian islands. The first population of Hvar Island were Neolithic folks that possibly hooked up change links among Hvar and the east shorelines of the Mediterranean. The Hvar Culture lasted from 3500 to 2500 B.C. Beginning within the 4th century BC, the Greeks colonized the island. In 384 BC the Greek colonisers of Pharos defeated Iadasinoi warriors and their allies, invited by the Hvar indigenes of their resistance to the Greek colonization. Their victory over lots large forces changed into immortalized in one of the oldest known inscriptions of Croatia.