Podgora

Podgora is a small town inside the Split-Dalmatia County of Croatia. It is positioned at the Adriatic shoreline of Dalmatia. The metropolis has a populace of 1,500 even as the municipality of Podgora has a populace of approximately 3,000. Podgora has a largely tourism-based totally economy. With its 5 lodges, it has four times as many beds as inhabitants. It is located 65 km south of Split and one hundred thirty five km north of Dubrovnik. This little fishing village is first mentioned inside the nineteenth century as the birthplace of Don Mihovil Pavlinović, a priest, politician and creator. He turned into additionally the primary man or woman to talk Croatian inside the

Dalmatian parliament, seeking the unification of Dalmatia and Croatia. Organized tourism started in Podgora in 1922, while the first resort "Praha" became constructed. During World War II, on September 10 1942, the Yugoslav Partisans shaped the Partisan Navy in Podgora. In 1962 Josip Broz Tito unveiled an outstanding monument on a small hill above the port of Podgora, The wings of a seagull, in remembrance of World War II occasions.