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Tučepi

 

Today, Tučepi is primarily recognized as a tourist destination on modern itineraries of Croatia and Europe. However, Tučepi is an ancient settlement with a history spanning four millennia, and the main reason for this is its favorable geographic location. Tučepi to the west borders the city of Makarska, the main and only urban center of the Croatian microregion of the Makarska Riviera, while to the north, it is bordered by the impressive Biokovo mountain.

The Tučepi hamlets: Podpeć, Čovići, Srida Sela, Šimići, and Podstup, with characteristics of traditional coastal architecture, are scattered across a wide area of the coastal flysch slope, rich with several natural springs and terraced agricultural land with vineyards and olive groves. To the south, along the gentle, pebbly, and four-kilometer-long coastline, lies today's Tučepi, a new and modern settlement whose prosperity is based on tourism.

If Southern Croatia were to stretch its invisible arms along the path of the sun, the place where it would connect all the sources of light would be in Tučepi, the small heart of Dalmatia. It is no wonder then that all of its most attractive features intersect in Tučepi. The golden beaches and shores, the greenery of pines, vineyards, and olive groves, the stone of Biokovo, and the blue depths of the sea, all under the clear dome of the sky that both the mountain and the sea are trying to reach...