Baška Voda

Baska Voda is located in the central part of the Croatian coast of the Adriatic Sea, in central Dalmatia, 48 km south of Split, in the western part of the Makarska Riviera and at the foot of the Biokovo mountain range 43° 21' north latitude and 16° 57' east longitude.

In the past, a settlement of farmers and fishermen, merchants and sailors, today it is a modern tourist resort with all the infrastructure of a small Mediterranean town (Baska Voda community).

The community, in addition to Baska Vode, also includes settlements: Bast, Bratuš, Krvavica and Promajna, Basko Pole and the village of Topici. The once famous sanatorium "Dječje selo" ("Children's Village") near Promajna, where children with respiratory diseases came from the former Yugoslavia and from abroad, was abandoned after World War II.

Underwater archaeological excavations confirm that Baska Voda is one of the preserved ports in the south of the Adriatic, which was used from prehistoric times to late antiquity.

Church of St. Lovre - the first public building, built in 1750 on the foundations of an old building.

Church of St. Nicholas Bishop - neo-Romanesque church from 1889. About a hundred years after its construction, the completely restored church of St. Nicolet received valuable stained glass windows by Josip Botteri Dini (1987) and the painting The Way of the Cross by Josip Biefel (1988). A bell tower (1991) and a parish priest's house (designed by Ante Rozic) were built next to the church, which houses a valuable collection of ethnographic and sacred objects.

Baska Voda is also known for two important museum collections in the center of the old town: the archaeological collection belonging to the municipality and the rich malacological collection belonging to the Jurišić and Akčić families.

Other cultural heritage sites include the Chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin (1860) and the Chapel of Souls of Purgatory in the Rogač area (1917), stone heads of local women in the house of the writer Zana Jurisic (1922), a bronze monument to those who died in World War II in the area Gradina (Nuklearni, 1980), a stone monument to naval paratroopers from the Second World War on Basko Polje (1984), a bronze statue of the patron Basko, st. Nicholas (Mladen Mikulin, 1999) at the entrance to the port and a modern monument "Hrvatska jedra" ("Hrvatsky sails" (Marko Gugich, 2005)