As its place is shielded from Mount Hum’s sharp winds, Komiža is known as the warmest town in winter months on Adriatic and the abundance of natural scenery and signs will surely make your travel unforgettable.

 How to Get There?

If you are not sailing around Adriatic or haven’t booked any tour of the islands, there is a ferry line from Split that would take you to the Vis Island where you may grab a local ride or bus to Komiža, which is about ten kilometers away from Vis Island’s port. Lots of accommodation facilities are available. Both private apartments and hotels can be found, which can be beneficial if you are planning to stay for a long period of time. However, it is important to book in advance because Vis Island is crowded during summer.

Once you have arrived in Komiža, there are about 50 beaches you can choose from. If you are the type of person who wants to explore rather than catching some sun, take a walk around Komiža for you to see beautiful historical architecture. 

Vis and Komiža territory in general are home to different lighthouses and beautiful monasteries and churches. 

 Things to Do While in Komiža

You will find lots of options for different activities in Komiža. There are some farms and diving centers that offer classes. This is best suited for those who want an adventurous vacation. If you want to know more about the culture and history of Komiža, you can explore wine roads and consider tours of abandoned military facilities and neighboring historic villages.

Since Komiža is renowned for its tradition of fishing, it isn’t surprising that one of the big events during summer is Fisherman’s night, which is a traditional manifestation that takes place on the first Saturday of August. The population in the island merges the tourists on the waterfront for various activities while enjoying the best wine and local cuisines.

While you are feasting, you can also try the popular dish around Komiža. Pogaca is a delicious flat bread that is baked in oven and prepared in various ways in Vis and Komiža. There is an event where you can have a chance to try the pogaca of Komiža.

Another phenomenal event at Komiža is that the waters around the town becomes the home to Rota Palagruzona. This is a historical regatta that features traditional sailboats. Such boats embark in Komiža and will set off for Palagruza’s remote archipelago. Palagruza is the uninhabited island that is considered as the favorite destination of fishermen.

Regardless of your needs or preferences when travelling, it’s best to leave everything to the locals and let them show you how majestic Komiža is.

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It’s picturesque Mediterranean community with abundant past. It has slim streets filed with old stone residences. Along the Komiža’s bay there are lot of stunning beaches. Komiža is popular as fishing community. With the past reside. of Komiza lived from fish improvement such as sardine, tuna, saucy arid etc. In U.S.A there are many people from Komiza WA, are renowneded fishermen. Thy transfered angling practice from Komiza to LISA.

Isle Vis was an a profession route in the antic times. There are lot of antic wrecks and sunken boats. Those are preferred scuba diving courses, likewise undersea has ricll vegetations and fauna. Great walls are covered with yellow and red gorgonia, fish, snails and crabs. MI those in lot of shades.

VIS and surrounding archipelago are shielded from the ministry of culture, division for the society heritage. In this archipelago you could do simply organized diving by the diving center from the island which has unique giving in for diving below.

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Inded Komiza and Vis are places you should by all means visit when traveling the Balkans.

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Brief record

The Greeks picked Vis in the fourth century BC, dealing with the island as a pointering rock in between the eastern and western shores of the Adriatic, and establishing Issa on the website of contemporary Vis Town. Hvar took over as the major mid-Adriatic port in the late Center Ages, and Vis came to be a rural hideaway for Hvar nobles.

When the autumn of Venice in 1797 opened the Adriatic to the competing navies of Europe’s great energies, Vis was up to the British, who fortified the port and combated Napoleon’s navy in 1811. The Austrians managed in 1815, famously cleaning aside Italian maritime aspirations in another huge sea struggle right here in 1866. During World War II, Vis briefly acted as the command post of Tito’s Partisan movement. After the battle, the isle was heavily garrisoned, a circumstance which, together with the decline of standard sectors like angling and fish canning, encouraged succeeding surges of emigration.

The island had ten thousand occupants before The second world war; it now has less than three many thousand. Baseding on neighborhood price quotes, there are 10 times much more Komiža family members living in San Pedro, California, compared to in the town itself.

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The island has three mountains stretching across it, and between these mountains are karstic fields. Hum has the highest altitude (585 m), Sveti Duh (563 m), and Mali Hum (514 m). (See map of Vis).

The locals are into agriculture, fishing and tourism. The coasts of the island are sloped and separated. To the west of the island is the Komiza bay and to the north is the Vis harbor.

History of the island of Vis

The first people settled in Vis in 3000 B.C. They were of Mediterranean background. In 2000 B.C. they were pushed aside by the Illyrians which formed their own government in the fifth and sixth century B.C.

The Sirakuski tyrant of Dimitrij the Elder in approximately 397 years B.C. established his colony on Vis and its settlers expanded their influence towards the central- Dalmatian islands.

The Illyrian king Agron I and queen Teuta, who where defeated by the Romans in 219 B.C., threatened the authority of Vis (Issa). Since then Issa has acknowledged the authority of Rome.

After the downfall of the Western Roman Empire (year 476), Vis at one time acknowledged the authority of the Goths and then the Byzantines. The Croats started settling in Vis in the seventh century.

Vis was occupied and destroyed by the Venetians and under Venetian authority from 1420. With peace in Campoformio in 1797, Venice hands it over to Austria, and after peace in Požun in 1805 it comes under the French who fortify it. In March 1811, the English fleet struck a hard defeat to the French-Italian fleet and occupied Vis.

By Regulations of the Vienna Congress of 1814, it was returned to Austria till 1918 when it was occupied by the Italians. In 1921, by the Rapal Contract, it belonged to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenians. In 1941 it was occupied by the Italians under whose government it stayed until the capitulation of Italy in 1943.

After this it became the military-navy base of the Partisan army in socialistic Yugoslavia, Vis was closed to outsiders because of its strategic position (this regulation was terminated in 1989) and the entire island was turned into a large military fort.

But this isolation, however difficult it was for the inhabitants of the island of Vis, placed Vis among the favorite destinations of the entire Mediterranean when Croatia became independent. Beautiful beaches, preserved nature, ecological agriculture and preserved traditional architecture are unique advantages of this unique island.

Vis has always been an island of fishermen and winegrowers. Komiza on the island of Vis is considered the cradle of fishing in the Adriatic, and in times gone by, the Komiza fishermen where well known in all Mediterranean harbors as experts in their field. Today the Fishing Museum in Komiza shows the famous history of the Vis fishermen.

Town Vis

Monastery in Vis town

It is said that the first grape vine in Dalmatia was planted by the ancient Greeks and that it was planted on a Vis field.
The Greek writer Agatarhid said that the wine from Vis was, compared to all others, better.
The most famous authentic white wine is definitely the famed Vis Vugava, which you can try in numerous restaurants and cellars on the island.

If we add to this unique historical, cultural, and natural heritage the beautiful crystal clear sea, stunning hidden beaches, bays and islands, kind hosts and comfortable accommodation in private houses and apartments , it is clear why Vis is the favorite tourist destination for those visitors who want to try the unique and almost gone authentic Mediterranean environment and way of life.
We invite you to visit Vis island, and we are sure you will never forget it!

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We will take you on a quest to an entirely various world, where there is no stress and every little thing is simple, special and deeply enjoyable. Get up and inhale the sea breeze, take pleasure in the view of fishermen trawling their fishnets in a standard way, taste the initial island items, take a walk in the wineries, delight in the view over olive-groves, get some of the natural herbs and listen for the pheasants. Forget the time, it feels as if it has stopped around here, travel from ancient times to present day, walk the footprints of old Illyrian people, see picturesque little towns whose stone residences are witnesses of the past, feel the opulence of herbs.

Lodging Details

Komiza is a poetic fisherman’s town with the most sunny days in a year, with hundred year old carob trees, picturesque stone houses, medical mediterranean plants and vinyards which are covering the hillsides.

We are located in the oasis of biodiversity discovered on the list of the Area Wildlife Fund (WWF) as amongst the ten heavenly places in the Mediterranean. A long fishing tradition is present all over. One of the most powerful marks is Gajeta FalkuÅ¡a- a famous fishermen’s boat, a highlight of that tradition.

You will be accommodated in the restored and renovated stone home. It is a lovely, two-storey, town house situated in a tiny courtyard just off Komiza’s main pedestrian walkway. Entrance to the asset is with a gate and small outdoor patio. A cooking area, dining area and small bathroom occupy the ground floor. A flight of stone steps leads upstairs along the exterior of the building to the first floor with main bathroom and extra kitchenette.

There are four double bedrooms and a bathroom spread over the first and second floors. The bedroom windows have birds eye views of the treetops and pantiled roofs. The rooms are bright and airy, painted in warm shades of lemon and terracotta. The bedrooms have beautiful old wardrobes and dresser drawers. The floors are hardwood, the home furnishings tasteful and uncluttered. All in all, a house of character and charm. Suitable for 10 person maximum.

Komiža is one of those places that are impossible to be indifferent to, that you can fall in love with ease which justifies the placement of island of Vis as one of the Ten last paradise resorts on Mediterranean, by WWF (World Wildlife Fund).

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Opposite the Komiž bay, just half an hour boat ride distance, there is the island of Biševo, well- known for its numerous caves and the most beautiful sandy beach called Porat.

The biggest cave on the island is the Mediterranean Seal Cave but the most famous is the Blue Cave which delights the visitors with its iridescent reflecton of shades of blue and silver. Whether you want an active holiday with attractive trips, diving schools, paragliding … or you prefer just lying in the sun far from urban life, Komiža will fascinate you so much that you will want to come again!

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