Baška
Baška with its long tourist tradition is the most visited resort on the island of Krk. Baška offers acomodation in the camps, hotels or rooms and apartments in the family houses located close to undoubtedly one of the most beautiful beaches in the Adriatic.
For the guest with the wish of an active holiday, Baška offers various promenades, next to usual sport facilities. From this promenades you can enjoy in a breathtaking scenery of Baška bay. "Baška inscription" is the oldest document of the croatian leterature, inscriped on the stone tablet 900 years ago, and it was founded in the church of St. Lucy near Baška.
You will be DEEPLY impressed by the wealth of unspoilt nature. Baška has all the characteristics of the Mediterranean climate - pleasant springs, warm summers with little rainfall, gentle autumns and windy winters.
In the summer, sea temperature can rise to 25 C, and the swimming season lasts from May to October. Characteristic winds that mark the seasons in Baška are mostly the "bora", a wind that dominates in winter, the "sirocco" in spring and autumn, and the "maestral", or north-westerly wind, in summer.
Baška has one of the most impressive and ancient cultures in Europe. Its cultural heritage makes it one of the most interesting and appealing places of the Croatian Adriatic, and Europe in general. Baška is known in history and literature for its famed Baška Tablet, but it is also proud of other valuable cultural features that attract attention, such as the old nucleus of the town, the remains of a Roman settlement, and sacral monuments.
Welcome to Baška...
Baška is the best known tourist resort on the island of Krk, the Adriatic’s biggest island ( 40.578 ha).
Krk’s position in the northern part of the Croatian Adriatic makes it the closest island to Central Europe. Baška’s favourable location has ensured its continuous growth and prosperity, as well as a distinctive place on the tourist scene, making the town one of the most popular tourist destinations on the Adriatic.
The town is located in a gentle valley and in a bay surrounded by vineyards, olive groves and flowering broom, with a picturesque background of the rocky mountains of Velebit and the islet of Prvić, which seem to shelter its unique 1800 m long pebbly beach, justly said to be one of the loveliest in the Adriatic.