LQC Prime route

Breath Dalmatia with your full lungs, Dalmatia which is unique, the one and the only, the most beautiful in the "whole world"...

Take those ancient routes by which vessels and ships have been sailing since the past centuries and sailors tempted mood and power of the sea...

SHORT ITINERARY:
Saturday: Sumpetar/boarding – Nečujam (island Šolta)/overnight
Sunday: Nečujam – Jelsa (island Hvar)/overnight
Monday: Jelsa – Korčula/overnight
Tuesday: Korčula – Mljet/overnight
Wednesday: Mljet – Vela Luka (island Korčula)/overnight
Thursday: Vela Luka – Hvar/overnight
Friday: Hvar – Sumpetar/overnight
Saturday: Sumpetar/unboarding

The moment when you board on one of our ships, relax and take a welcome drink, your cruise starts towards the island Šolta...

Nečujam: the youngest village of the island, founded by building summer houses but also by planned hotel building, Nečujam is the largest and according to some the most beautiful cove of the island. It is the center of the island’s tourism and with its apartment village it offers a pleasant holiday to different types of tourists and a lot of them are traditional visitors for decades. The coves of Nečujam (Piškera, Maslinica, Podkamenica, Šumpljivina and Tiha) are a great potential for development of nautical and day-trip tourism. It is known that the first visitors who felt the beauty of Nečujam were Marko Marulić, the father of Croatian literature, and Petar Hektorović, a poet and a writer. Even the emperor Diocletian knew about the quality of the local seas of Šolta and he had his fishery in Nečujam. The Latin name of this place is Vallis Surda – deaf cove, because of its size. Namely, the cove of Nečujam is one of the larger on Šolta so most of the sounds get lost in it. The best example for that is the fact that when you come by boat to Nečujam at night hours, you can hear the sound from the disco-club only when you reach the shore. This kind of natural characteristic was obviously appreciated by great artists as Marulić and Hektorović who right here found inspiration for their works of art. In today’s archeological localities can be found the traces of ancient life. In the cove of Piskera the remains of Roman farm building were found, while in the surroundings were found graves, some pottery and money. Under the sea we can see the remains of the walls by which the cove was enclosed and turned into a fishery. The remains of Roman necropolis were found in the vicinity and also near the cove of Supetar. Today Nečujam is a modern tourist village. It is connected to other parts of the island by bus and taxi lines. Nečujam is the center of Šolta’s tourism for the very reason of the apartment village that is a part of it.

Island Hvar has a lot to show – from beautiful bays to old dalmatian towns full of heritage and secrets hidden in stone walls. We shall spend evening in such of those towns:

Jelsa is a small town situated in a bay on the northern coast of the central part of the island of Hvar. It borders with the two highest peaks on the island: St. Nicolas on the west and Hum on the east. Jelsa consists of two main parts: Vela Banda on the southern coast and Mala Banda on the northern. Jelsa is an important tourist centre which has a rich tradition in tourism (the oldest hotel Jadran was built in 1911). The town is also well-known for its quality red wine for a long time ago. On the hill above Jelsa there is Tor, a massive fortification built of huge regular shaped blocks of stone joined without mortar. It was a Greek observation point, which stands on an older Illyrian fort. This fort is from the ancient period and it was of great importance in the Middle Ages. Jelsa was being developed since the 14th century as the port of Pitve, the village 3 km far away from the sea. Jelsa developed especially in the 19th century, due to shipbuilding and navigation. This conditioned its urban expansion and its acquisition of the main role on the central part of the island.
Jelsa has numerous cultural and historical monuments. The most famous are:
Church of St. Mary's Assumption (from 1331), today the parish church, Our Lady of Health Church built in 1535 at the top of Racic hill (the hill itself offers a beautiful view of valley and the port), The Church of St. Rock built in the second part of the 16th century, The Church of St. Michael built in 1463, Lapidary (a collection of stone monuments) contains about twenty stone monuments dating back from ancient and mediaeval times, Perivoj (public garden) - one of the largest and most beautiful parks in Dalmatia, created in 1870 on alluvial terrain (the large poplars, pine and palm trees, acacias and oleanders, bay laurel and other Mediterranean plants add to the beauty of the park), Pjaca (main square) situated in the centre of Jelsa (on the west side of the square there is a natural water spring, also known as the small river Slatina, which has been used by the local inhabitants since the ancient times), Square of St. John which is one of the most beautiful squares from the Renaissance-Baroque era, with a small octagonal St. John church from the end of the 15th century and small church of St. Luke which is in the cove 4 km from Jelsa. In this area there are remains from the Roman period.

We are going further, towards Korčula, the hometown of Marco Polo...

Korčula: a historic fortified town on the protected east coast of the island of Korčula in the Adriatic.The old city is surrounded by walls, and the streets are arranged in a herringbone pattern allowing free circulation of air but protecting against strong winds. Korcula is tightly built on a promontory that guards the narrow sound between the island and the mainland. Building outside the walls was forbidden until the 18th century, and the wooden drawbridge was only replaced in 1863. All of Korčula's narrow streets are stepped with the notable exception of the street running alongside the southeastern wall. The street is called the Street of Thoughts as one did not have to worry about the steps.The town's historic sites include the central Romanesque-Gothic Cathedral of St Mark (built from 1301 to 1806), the 15th-century Franciscan monastery with a beautiful Venetian Gothic cloister, the civic council chambers, the palace of the former Venetian governors, grand 15th and 16th century palaces of the local merchant nobles, and the massive city fortifications.

Short cruising between these two beautiful pearls will allow you lying on the sundeck while aproaching to Odysseus' island – Mljet: unspoiled nature and sounds of the sea...

Mljet: for many tourists it's one of the islands lost in the open sea. It is really hard to reach. But don't let the landscape mentioned in the stories of Ulysses, St Paul, Benedictines and the Mediterranean she-bear remain undiscovered. Mljet seems to be an unintended long island, approximately 3 km wide and 37 km long. It's an island of peculiarities and contrasts. The National Park "Mljet" occupies its north-western part and covers an area of 5375 hectares of protected land and surrounding sea. It was declared a National Park on 11th November 1960. and represents the first institutional attempt of protection of the original ecosystem in the Adriatic.
The National Park "Mljet" was declared an area of a special destination for: its unique panoramic view consisting of indented coast, cliffs, rocks and numerous islets, rich orthography of nearby hills that steeply dominate the sea surface screening the numerous rocky fields and ancient stone settlements. Its outer coast, open towards the south sea, is steep and full of "garma" - fell in caves. The coast facing the mainland and north wind "bura" is lower and more approachable; its salty lakes representing a unique geological and oceanographic rocky phenomenon, important in worldly proportions. These two unique salty lakes were, originally (10000 years ago), fresh-water lakes all the way to the Christian era. On the coastal rocks some endemic Dalmatian plants with the beauty, "dubrovačka zečina" ahead, can be found.

Mljet, "second paradise", can be nicely visited if you rent a bike or a motorbike. It is a completely different and interesting experience to take a swim in the lakes.

In the evening, take your favorite drink, sit in a deck chair and enjoy the landscape.

Vela Luka: a place with 4500 inhabitants is situated in a deep, picturesque bay in the west of the island of Korčula. It's known for its friendly hosts, Dalmatian song, mild climate and crystal clear sea and air....

Hvar: the king of the island-towns, according to many the most beautiful posh place for a night out, nevertheless it's a town full of historical heritage. The town with the oldest theater in Europe. It is situated on the south-west coast of the island in a beautiful bay protected by the Pakleni islands. Once town of stormy history today Hvar is one of the most visited and most important tourist centers of the Adriatic.

The oldest European theater, the Fortress, the Arsenal, the Town lodge, the cathedral, the Franciscan monastery, are some of the sights that will dazzle you with their beauty and take you back in time when Venetia, Austria or Napoleon were governing Hvar. But Hvar is not only about sights. It is also a port open to the sea and the Pakleni islands, it is a unique climate suitable for healing, it is its beaches and restaurants, clubs,. that have been a glowing tourist center for almost a century and a half!

                                                                                  Your Lion Queen Charter team!