Situated at
the "gate" of the Kornati archipelago (the inhabitants of Murter are owners of a
greater part of the lands), Murter is one of the favourite destinations of
boaters and those who prefer peaceful vacations. The beginnings of tourism in
Murter date back to the 1930s, when the so-called Czech Villa was built in the
cove of Slanica, today the rest home of the Trade Union Federation.
Murter offers various forms of accommodation (hotel, apartments,
marina), nice and quiet -bea-ches, a number of restaurants and inns. Each
visitor will gladly visit the Kornati archipelago because excursions are daily
organized during the tourist season. Murter has a number of sports facilities
(tennis, basketball, indoor football). Water sports are also possible. Various
sports competitions are organized in the summer months. A kind of introduction
into the sports season is the regatta Murter - Kornati, held in April.
Traditional feasts include: St. Roch (Rocco) (16th of August) and the Murter
feast of the Birth of Mary (8th of September); the most important cultural event
is the Drama Amateurs Festival (held in May).
Hramina Marina has 400
berths in the sea and 250 places on the land.
MURTER, a village in the
north-western part of the island of Murter. It was first called Veliko Selo
(from the 13th c.) and Srimac (Srimac); it got its present name in 1715. Murter
stretches toward the cove of Hramina, which houses a marina, and toward the cove
of Slanica. The cove of Hramina is well protected from all kinds of winds and
provides good shelter for smaller yachts; the cove of Slanica features a public
beach and the hotel complex Collentum. Economy is based on farming, viticulture,
fishing and tourism. Murter is located on the regional road.
Murter was
first mentioned in the 15th century. The remains of Roman structures, probably
the remains of the ancient settlement of Collentum, have been found at the foot
of an elevation called Gradina, in the cove of Hramina and elsewhere. - On the
cape of Gradina is the local cemetery, where early Croatian graves have been
found. At the cemetery is the church of Our Lady in Gradina from the 17th
century. The parish church of St. Michael features a Baroque altar, a
work by masters Pio and Vicko dall'Acqua and an icon by the Cretan-Venetian
school. The
parsonage keeps a Gothic-Renaissance processional crucifix and several valuable paintings.
- Above the village, on the Vrsina hill, is
the church of St. Roch (Rocco) from 1760.
