Cultural tourism Rab

Cultural tourism is defined as travel persons outside the residence with a view to the search for new experiences and experiences that meet their cultural needs. Cultural tourism also includes visits to cultural and historical sites in the distant and recent history of the tourist destinations, museums and galleries, churches, musical and theatrical events and performances, music and, more recently and visits to concerts of pop culture. That is considered to be cultural tourism motivated learning about cultural heritage, art and culture of life and work in the nation visited tourist area. Characteristics of demand for this type of culture is characterized by the fact that it is a broad spectrum of tourists covering different age groups and education, but with an indication that interest in culture increases with age. Cultural tourism is a younger branch of tourism that emerges from the needs of all educated tourists and their needs work on myself, learning and entertainment needs through introducing the history and tradition, and is motivated by the creative cultural activities related to the activities that have been preserved from the past such as learning traditional skills through cultural tourism product with religion, gastronomy and tourism literature or contemporary art production.

Following the southwest coast of the island, after a denuded  Misnjak, Barbat and Banjol we come till the city of Rab.

The city of Rab acquired his title in the 10. yaer B.C. when the Roman emperor Octavian August proclaimed his indipendence. The city has in a short time recived also an epithet FELIX, which means "happy" and was given to towns to honour and compliment them. Rab represents a kind of historic-cultural journey trought the history. In favour of that speaks the fact that there are many infrastructure objects from different historical periods and style: romanic, renaiscance, gothic...Many curches testify the high spirituality of the local people, some of them out of function or even ruined. The main church is the on of the ealt of the Blessed Virgin Mary, decorated with rich scarves. The main square is the one of Saint Christopher which has a fountain with two sculpture representing Kalifront and the shepherdess Draga, characters of the local legend about a forbidden love. As one of the most significant infrastructures we must mention the old town with...