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You can reach Mljet from all different parts of the world: trough the paths of ancient legend of the advanced civilisatin from the direction of Otranto to Apeninian... |
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... peninsula’s paths of focused, spiritual and hardworking Benedictians to aristicratsy of rich Republick of Dubrovnik, getting hit hard by it’s... |
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...sharp rocky cliffs from West or sands from East. You are coming from Korčula direction or vastnes of Lastovo sea to... |
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...it’s western softh feathers; or meaby from North across the roads of wareries to the beautiful and calm bays that each one... |
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...remindes as you’ve just descovered a dimond of the brightest shine. Over a rather stormy croatian history, that here smells of the south wind, Mljet has always been shelter of the danger of its all. Eaven modern nomads like to expirience it as a target of their summer adventures or as just as another spot on there way that each time astonish them unreaddy with it’s magic almost unreal beauty. |
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 Mljet is situated on the west dalmatian coast. It is the most western island of all bigger croatian islands. It is situated paralely to penisola of Pelješac, between there’s Mljet channel 8 kms long. Eastwestern end of the island is 18 kms away from island of Korčula while the other, westeastern end 30 kms from Dubrovnik. The closest sea- cross to the peninsola of Pelješac is from Sobra (Zaglavac) to Prapratno, cca 5 miles. There are 25 miles from Sobra to Dubrovnik, 13miles from Pomena to Korčula and 17 miles from Saplunara to Dubrovnik. West coasts of the island are faced to the open sea looking to far away coast of Italy. Mljet is 37 kms long , 3 kms wide and has a surface of cca 100,4 km2. It is one of the biggest Croatian islands 8th larger island of all. The higest mountain is 514 m high and is called Veliki Grad, is situated over village of Babino Polje. Of other higest mountains there are Veliki Planjak (389m), Sutilija (390m), Vrh od Kantuna (465 m) and Zirine (488 m) as well as some others. |
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Trought the Centuries it is bealived that after the shipwreck that happened in in 61.AD on his way to Rome st. Paul Apostol lended on the island of Mljet, more specificly on the beach of Saplunara. This story is mentioned in the Bible, chapter 27. and 28. of the Acts of The Apostoles. St. Luke in his Acts of The Apostoles says that St. Paul spent 3 months on the island of Mljet preaching Gospel. Above Saplunara, in Žara field there are the rest of the church that people still call St. Paoul's church. The official stamp of the Mljet County from 1850. til 1921. had the figure of St. Paul on it.! It is also bealived that st. Paul named Saplunara first, after latin word «sabulum» that means «sand».Odysseus cave |
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Odysseus's cave is situated under the village of Babino Polje. It's a large egg shaped cave accessed by a 30 metre tunnel used as a harbour by local fishermen. There are two entrances to the cave : one from the seaside and the other one from the hill..
Trough the time it is bealived that Odysseus found his shelter here after surviving a shipwreck, that's where the cave's name comes from.
According to Homer, King of Itaka survived a shipwreck on his way back home from the Troian war, and it took place near the island of Ogigia (interesting thing is that there's an rocky island in front of the cave called Ogiran!). Odysseus swam into the cave for shelter and there nymph Calypso, daughter of Poseidon, God of the sea, waited for him . Amaised by the beauty of the nature and in love with nymph Calipso Odysseus stayed on the island for 7 years.
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