Omis
provides numerous sports and recreational facilities; football and basketball
playgrounds, tennis courts, boccia alleys; beach volleyball may be played on the
beach. There are 30 free climbing trails on the cliffs of the Cetina canyon;
water sports equipment is rented; a swimming marathon for recreation enthusiasts
is regularly organized.
The nearby tourist resorts also provide
excellent opportunities for peaceful vacations: Stanici, Celine, Ruskamen,
Mimice, Marusici, Pisak. These resorts offer quality accommodation facilities;
Mimice and Pisak are known for its boarding houses.
OMIS, a small town
and port at the mouth of the Cetina river in the littoral of Poljica, 26 km
southeast of Split. Economy is based on farming, fishing, textile and
food-processing industries and tourism. Extensive sand beaches stretch from Dugi
Rat in the west to Ravnice in the east. A 700-m wide shallow stretches off the
low sand coast west of Omis, created by the drifts of the Cetina; it has a
changing depth (up to 2 m). In the eastern part of the Poljica littoral, between
Ravnice and Vrulja, are several coves (Mala Luka, Velika Luka, Lucica and
Vojskovo) with sand-pebble beaches. Omis lies at the intersection of the main
road (M2, E65) and the regional road, connecting Omis with the
hinterland in the Cetina
valley (via Zadvarje). North of Omis, in the village
of Zakucac, is the hydro-electric power plant "Split".
