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Island Iz is situated in northern Dalmatia, between Dugi otok and Ugljan.
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Iz apartmens (Northern Dalmatia)
Island Iz is situated in northern Dalmatia, between Dugi otok and Ugljan. Island Iz has two tourist villages; Veli Iz and Mali Iz. Veli Iz and Mali Iz are beatiful little villages, surrounded by figtrees, olivegardens and vegetable plantations. The climate is mild Mediterranean with the middle year air temperature of 15 °C.
The economy is based on agriculture, viticulture, growing fruits, production of olives, fishing and marine business.
The economy is based on agriculture, viticulture, growing fruits, production of olives, fishing and marine business.
Furthermore, the island is known for specially made and decorated ceramic artifacts. It is well known for it's long fishing tradition. It is important to mention the 1000th anniversary of fishing which we haverecently celebrated in these parts of Croatia.
Mali Iz consists of 5 dwelings, Porovac, Makovac, Muce and on the seaside Knez and Komoseva. Mali Iz lies on the northern side of the island that is connected to the mainland by ferry lines. The place has almost 200 inhabitants who live off of agriculture and fishing. Mali Iz has been inhabited since ancient times and examples of early Croatian architecture that can be found on the entire island bear witness to this. Picturesque Mali Iž has a Church of St Mary (9th or 10th century), and very pleasant and attractive beaches.
Today's Veli Iz is a small tourist village with a hotel, a marina, a few restaurants and caffe's and 300 beds in private accomodation.
Veli Iž is as if painted onto the shores of its wide bay, the high bell-tower of St Peter’s in the middle.
The hundred year old dockyard and the contemporary marina are, alongside traditional carpentry, sailing and fishing, are the symbols of the town. There is a hotel and an organization that organizes accommodation in family houses, the local museum, the Iž fiesta featuring the King of Iz, and other cultural and sporting traditions complete the picture of what there is to interest the visitor.
Iz, an island of fisherman, seafarer, potters olivegrowers is the most picturesque island of the Zadar archipelago. It is covered with tipical mediterranean bush and cultivated with aproximately 70.000 olive trees.
A unique fhenomena is the pottery of Veli Iz, which supplied a large part of the Adriatic coast with clay pots for cooking and household use. Some 70 families specialised in this craft in the past. They could sell (exchange) their pots only in the territory assigned to them by casting lots.The potters would throw the unsold pots into the sea before returning home, because it was a disgrace not to sell all the goods.
Iz - Beaches :
Here you can enjoy the peacefull environment - the crystal clean and warm sea, beaches made of plate stones, shades of pine and olive trees.
On the island you can find various kinds of beaches, sandy, gravelly, beaches made of stones and rocks and cemented beaches.
On the island you can find various kinds of beaches, sandy, gravelly, beaches made of stones and rocks and cemented beaches.
Iz - Accomodation :
Mali Iz offers private accomodation in apartments, rooms and boarding houses.
In Veli Iz there is a hotel and an organization that organizes accommodation in family houses.
Hotel Korinjak, situated in Veli Iz, is the first hotel on the Adriatic specialized for ecological, health and holistic programs, offering also healthy vegetarian diet based on traditional home cuisine.
Allocated at the entrance to the small harbour of Veli Iz, on a colorful point in the mists of pine tree and surrounded by beaches.
The hotel has the capacity of 80 rooms with bathroom, in total 200 beds. The restaurant is located on a wide covered terrace above the hotel beach.
The hotel has the capacity of 80 rooms with bathroom, in total 200 beds. The restaurant is located on a wide covered terrace above the hotel beach.
In the vicinity of the hotel you can find a camp whose guests can enjoy the beautiful pine tree forest by the see.
In Mali Iz, in the bay of Knez is situated homonym restaurant and apartments. Large a la carte restaurant, offers all year long a good vines of this region, and delicious dishes of Dalmatian kitchen.
Iz - Gastronomy :
Cuisine of the island Iz consists mostly of plenty of fish, olive oil, vegetables and self-sown herbs found near the sea is why this cuisine is considered to be very healthy.
Fresh sea fish (dogs tooth, gilthead, sea-bass, grouper, mackerel, pilchards) grilled, boiled or marinated; then there are molluscs (squid, cuttlefish, octopus), crustaceans (shrimps, lobsters) and shellfish (mussels, oysters, date-shells) boiled in a fish stew or as a risotto.
Of the meat dishes, prosciutto is unarguably unrivalled - pork leg smoked and dried in the bura, served with dry, mostly sheep’s cheese and salted green and black olives, capers and pickled onions.
Lamb is also very highly valued, especially boiled or baked on an open fire (lopiz from the island of Iz).
Iz - Events :
A special summer attraction is the Festival of Iz - "Iska Festa", a manifestation of folklor where the antic ceremony of choosing a village king can be seen along with traditional costumes and crafts, sports andother events.
Iz - Cultural Heritage :
In Veli Iz there are several Romanesque buildings of nice architecture, while valuable exhibits can be seen in the Homeland Museum (Zavicajni muzej).
The island was populated in prehistory. Constantine Porfirogenet gives it the name Ez in the Tenth century; in middle Ages and later the island was owned by noble families and citizens of Zadar.
The parochial church of St. Peter in Veli Iž has been mentioned since the Fourteenth Century, but hasn’t been conserved in its original shape.
Conserved are the castle of the family Canagietti from Zadar and the castle of the family Fanfogna which was originally built in Romanic style and subsequently partitioned and made into a school in the Nineteenth century.
Above the harbour, on top of the village Mali Iz you can see the pre-Romanic church (dating from the Eleventh century) with a circular shape and an half circled apse; Seventeenth century a rectangular wing was added. Not far from the church you can find a fortified castle.
Iz - Excoursions :
- fulday boat excoursion to Bay of Telascica
- fulday boat excoursion to Kornati National Park
- fulday boat excoursion to Kornati National Park
- hill walking and biking
- boat rental
- boat rental
* a boat for rent
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