Gastronomy Podstrana

Gastronomy and tourism have much in common, so that the development of one without the other almost unthinkable. Going back a few years in the past, tourism has amounted to a tour of historical and cultural sites, and a tour of natural beauty such as national parks, nature parks, and general landscape which knows itself to be beautiful. If the away team's luck, but it is on his journey accompanied a nice time, he was able to experience the full splendor of natural beauty, but otherwise, we can say with certainty that he fully enjoyed the study of cultural and natural beauty. As the standard of living has increased, increased the need to offer a variety of content in tourism. One of the most comfortable way of getting to know people with the culture and way of life of people in a particular area is through food. Thus, in addition to good weather and natural beauty found in the tourist industry and gastronomy. Through a variety of culinary delights can be guest or tourist familiar with the delicacies that are native to the place that we present. Through old authentic dishes can see how life in the area once looked like, what kind of foods are used and what methods of food preparation are known, the diversity of plant and animal species in the area, both in the countryside and in the towns, inland and coastal, every meal can tell the historical and cultural story.

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...