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Mobile home for max. 4 adults + 2 children in Dalmatia
1/4Fast to the waterAdriatic coast Croatia | The holiday apartments and houses are no more than 500 metres from the shimmering blue Adriatic. Perfect for water rats and sun worshippers who can’t wait.
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2/4Private bathing funCroatia | There’s no doubt that the Croatian Adriatic coast offers some great beaches – but your holiday will be perfect if you have your own pool. Enjoy the privacy and splash around to your heart’s content.
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show more for ships, which at the time sailed mainly along the coast.
It is worth noting that Osor is one of our oldest cities and the first one recorded in written history. Furthermore, the historical Amber route passed through here and connected our coast with the Baltic. The name is probably of Illyrian origin and its transformation can be traced since Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Latin records to modern day Italian and Croatian terms: Apsoros, Apsorus, Opsare, Absortium, Osero and Osor.
Some archaeologists believe ships overcame the Osor portage by sailing or being towed across the coast in the shallow water to the east of the city, and that the area was covered later. This is concluded from the composition of the city walls and the fact that Osor does not have a port except in the Bihar Bay to the northwest and the muddy shallow Jaz to the southeast where salt pans used to lay.
Very early, probably in the Roman period, to the west, in solid rock beneath the city walls, a tunnel was dug by the name Cavata (Croatian Kavuada), today Kavanela. This canal was the cause of the great ascent of Osor and later its decline.
Osor was first a Liburnian settlement which collaborated with Greeks. The Romans took it over 167. BC and fortified it according to the Illyrian wall line. The discovered remains from the Roman period include the remains of the main streets (kardo and dekumanus), public buildings, sewers and water supply and a necropolis across the canal, on the Lošinj side. It is believed this was the most prosperous time of the city as remnants of Illirians, the new Roman-Italian population, and many emigrants from the east, mostly prominently Greeks, lived there. Even the writer Alberto Fortis wrote that the town had 20 000 inhabitants, which is probably very exaggerated, but it is possible that several thousand lived in the Roman Apsorus.
During the 5th century Osor was briefly under the rule of Ostrogoths, and with the beginning of the 6th century it was annexed to Dalmatia thus becoming a part of the Byzantine Empire. It is believed a diocese was founded in Osor around that time (530. AD on the synod in Salona). The city was raided by the Saracens in 841. and again, even worse, by the Genovese during the 14th century. In the 10th century Osor recognized the authority of Croatian rulers, in 1000. AD it came under Venetian rule, and in 1105. the Croatian-Hungarian king recognized it as a city with corresponding privileges.Interesting fact is that once the islands Cres and Lošinj were actually one island named Osor, before channel was cut. Nowdays Osor lies at channel that separates islands Cres and Lošinj. Islands are connected with a rotating bridge. The channel was build by Romans to make sailing possible. Osor is an open-air museum where you can find ancient town square surrounded by beautiful buildings from XV and XVI centuaries, Bishop's palace, cathedral and bell tower from the early Christian era; Through the town you can encounter many sculptures left behind by the great croatian artist Ivan Meštrović.
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Osor, Croatian Adriatic Coast
Holiday home for max. 7 adults + 2 children
Property no. 876001
from USD 2,574for 1 weekApprox. 130 m², 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, pets are allowed (any), satellite TV, Wifi, washing machine, dishwasher, concrete beach approx. 200 m, sea approx. 15 m, private pool, sea/lake view, natural stone house
