Zlarin

The island of Zlarin is the closest to Sibenik.  It counts up to 2700 hours of sunlight per year. It's well known for its long coral tradition (coral -  from Greek koralion - the daughter of the sea). Our ancestors believed that coral had magical powers, and pregnant women used to wear it to protect them from curses and illnesses. In the center of the island there's  Coral Museum of Zlarin. Aapart from buying coral jewelery, there you can see the whole procedure of processing and producing corals. In mid August there's a manifestation of coral pickers setting off to the sea, which reminds us of a 500 year long tradition.

A legend says that the Madonna of Raselj Church was primarily supposed to be built at Klepac. However, a group of people found a painting of Virgin Mary right at the spot of today's church, and took it to Klepac. The next day, the painting wasn't there. It reappeared again at the place it was first found , and they decided to build the church there instead. Even though Zlarin has remained almost intact for hundreds of years, the place doesn't lack cultural events throughout the summer period. Every year people in Zlarin organize numerous events, photography exhibitions, traditional festival  'Srdelada', school of Chakavian dialect... There's also a popular and interesting project which includes children's art, musical or drama workshops, which get performed as theatrical play at Leroj Square, including not only the kids of the island, but grownups too, and some of the most famous Croatian actors, singers and painters, too. It takes 30 minutes to get from Sibenik to Zlarin by boat, and the boats go regularly few times a day. One way ticket costs 17 kn. There's an infirmary, post office, exchange office and open air cinema. There are no cars on the island, just bikes and golf carts.

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