Active tourism Podstrana

Active tourism is a temporary travel and stay, which is the main motive for recreation, outside his residence. Because of the need to participate in physical activities, visits and desires for watching various sporting events or any active or passive involvement in sporting activities on a personal level or the organized tourist destination for tourists prepare a variety of sports and recreational offerings. Thus, the capacity of accommodations are sports fields, gyms, fitness gym and other sports and recreational facilities are increasingly under the control of professional trainers. For lovers of active tourism prepared various adventure specialties such as rafting, kayaking, scuba diving, paragliding, climbing the cliffs of mountains, diving the depths of the sea, the wild nature cycling, caving, air tourism and other ordinary and unusual sports. The nature of man's movement, and accelerated pace of life, stress and more sitting and not moving during the work, on vacation people make up sport.

On the south-east from the town Split - exactly 8 km away, between the river of Zrnovica and the hill of Mutograsa, is situated Podstrana.  As one of the places situated along the 6-km coast, Podstrana has beautiful gravel beaches, clean sea and thick Mediterranean vegetation, pines and tamarisk bushes.

Podstrana is the favourite bathing resort of the people from Split. Apart from being known as a tourist town, Podstrana is also famous as an agriculture area where grow lettuce, peaches and cherries.

According to the oldest historic documentation the area of Podstrana was inhabited by the Illyrian tribe of Pituntini.

Naturally the Romans also left here their trace and from the medieval time there are two churches, both dedicated to Saint George, while from the baroque stile we have the main church of Saint Anthony. The historic resources point out that near the church of Saint Martin was made truce between the Venetian doge Peter Tradenius and the prince Mislav.

In summer Podstrana offers a various programs of musical, literary, art and scene-play contents. With the development of the tourism...