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Sali is the biggest village on the island Dugi Otok

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Sali is the cultural and administrative center of the island Dugi Otok. Situated on the north-east coast of the island, with a thousand years old tradition, according to written documents from 990. From the ancient times it is called an ante-room to Kornati. It is a place surrounded with natural parks, thousand years old olive trees, with very rich cultural and sacral inheritance from early centuries of the Christianity.

Sali is the biggest village of the island Dugi Otok, situated close to the National Park of Kornati, from which is 5 miles far away. This village is extended between two bays that lodge the harbor (Porat) and the beaches. In Sali there are three restaurants, a hotel, three bars, four food shops, a newspaper kiosk, the post office, a doctor and two sub schools.

Sali - Beaches :

Beaches on Dugi Otok Island are different from one area to another; in the zone of Sali there are mainly rocks and cliff with a part of terraces under the hotel side and pinewood. There are also some sandy beaches achievable only with ships. Nudism is practiced almost everywhere except the beaches near by villages.

Sali - Accomodation :

In Sali, among private accomodation, there is also one hotel. Hotel Sali is situated in the beautiful pine forest in the small cove of Sascica, near the centre of Sali, on a beautiful beach where you can feel the beauty, peace and privacy surrounded with Mediterranean fragrances.

- Hotel Sali ***

Hotel Sali has 4 pavilions: Alga, Koralj, Perla and Sirena that can take up to 148 guests.
Hotel has a restaurant with wide selection of meals from the menu as well as special order meals, snack bar and a pub.
Near hotel there is a beach where you can enjoy beautiful and clear sea.

Sali - Sports and Recreation :

Nautical and sport tourism is very popular in Sali. There are two diving schools. One of them you can find In the hotel. This scuba diving club organizes excursions in undersea world of the island and Kornati islands as well.
There is a possibility of renting a scooter and a bike, privately or from Sali hotel.

Sali - Gastronomy :

On the Island of Dugi Otok you will find mediteranian cuisine which is tight connected to the sea and sea fruits. In all the restaurants and taverns on the island you will find dishes made od fish, calamary, crab and other fish fruits. Speaking of food it is also important to mention olive oil, lamb and figs which are very significant for the culture of this island.

Sali - Events :

“Saljske užance”, very famous happening in Sali, consist of cultural and entertaining events, which have been taking place for 47 years, every year at the first weekend in August.

On the first day of that event local musical show 'Tovareća mužika' comes with ships to Zadar and upon their arrival in afternoon hours perform their show in the old city center of Zadar thus inviting people to events of 'Saljske užance'.

The next day there is the event 'Ribarska noć'– preparing and choosing the best fish stew, grilling tuna, anchovy and other types of seafood takes place together with entertainment program in Porto with Dalmatian harmony-singing groups.

The third day is reserved for sport contests on Sali (scooter races, bag races, rope pulling) and afterwards 'Saljska Night' takes place together with entertainment program on the quayside with a Croatian pop group.

Then there are closing day events, when there are traditional donkey races 'Trke tovarov', which is a spectacular event for all island guests, the majority of which arrive to the quayside of Sali to see this unusual race.The morning starts with a patriotic song all over the island of Sali and then in the afternoon hours the donkey races 'Trke tovarov'. take place. In the end occasional prizes are awarded for the fastest donkey as well as for the laziest one – the one who comes last to the finish line.

Then in the evening hours there is a concert of a group for young people and those who feel so, which is also the last one in a row of concerts and performances in the course of three days.
The concert finishes in morning hours when the ship comes, which takes guests back to Zadar.

Sali - Cultural Heritage:

Among sacral monuments the most important is a parish church “Uznesenje BDM” in Sali. In the church collection of monuments there are two fragments of stone plastic decorated with threefold braids. These two fragments are part of the same baluster that is secondarily used as a gravestone. This church was pulled down 1465 and a larger one was erected.
The monumental wooden high altar dates back to the 17th century and has a Baroque relief panel with two subsequently inserted early Renaissance pictures that are actually parts of destroyed polyptych.

Other churches are St. Roko from 1644, chapel “Mala Gospa” on the port entrance (cape Bluda) and St. Nicholas.

- St. Nikola´s church

There is further a range of other ones belonging to mostly pre-Romanesque period, but of which only foundations remained, such as St. Victor on Citorij, St. John in Stivanje polje and from the early Christian period: Crkvina or St. Luke on the position of Čuh and remnants of a smaller church on the hill of Koženjak.

Church of St. John appeared very early in documents. Its oldest monument dates back to 1064 or 1065, when the church was mentioned under the name cela Sancti Iohannis.

- The remains of st. John´s church

Based on found remnants of architecture and stone plastic, Petricioli estimates that the church was build partly on ruins of a Roman construction and dates back to the pre-Romanesque period (9th century). However, in more recent studies there are conclusions that it originates from earlier period, dating back to the 5th or 6th century. Its continuity went through pre-Romanesque period, which is confirmed by discovered remnants of stone plastic dated from that time. The church existed also in Romanesque and Gothic period, which is confirmed by written documents and discovered fragment of Roman console.

- Church of St. Victor, Sali

On the high ground “citorij”, on slopes of the hill Stivanja gora, lie remnants of the church of St. Victor. Veneration of St. Victor is namely extremely rare in Dalmatian area and therefore this church is the only one devoted to that saint. St. Victor is a martyr saint, whose churches were erected mostly in the early Christian period.
- Koženjak, Sali

There are ruins of architecture and fragments of church furniture (two fragments of baluster and impost capital).

- Crkvina, Sali

On the small hill of Sukavac, in the southeast of Dugi otok, in the midst of peninsula that on the north side closes the cove of Telašćica at the place of Sali, lie ruins of a small church that are traditionally called “Crkvina”.

Sali - Excoursions :

- fulday boat excoursion to Bay of Telascica
- halfday excoursion to Cape of Punta Bjanka
- fulday boat excoursion to Kornati National Park
- passenger transfer service by means of a ship routes to: Zadar, all neighbouring islands, Split, Brač, Hvar, Novalja The ship's base is in Sali, Dugi otok.
- fishing excoursions : morning, daily, evening and multiday fishing. - the cruising program route: PP Telašćice; Iž - Rava - Krknata; Sukošan - Kukljica; NP Kornati; Vodice - Šibenik; Mali lošinj; canyon Zrmanja.