These beautiful karst lakes are located on the very edge of the town of Imotski and are among the biggest attractions of Dalmatian Zagora. Blue Lake is named after its beautiful color and is approximately 800 m long and 250-400 m wide …
Red Lake is named after the reddish tint of the almost vertical rocks around it. The measured height difference is 528 m, with a depth of 287 m – which according to the data ranks it among the deepest lakes in Europe …
From Biorine to Cista Velika, south of the modern roadway, lies a preserved ancient road that used to connect Trilj and Imotski. Developed in prehistoric times, the first serviceable road was built by the Romans in the 1st century AD …
The church of St. James was built in 1888 at the site of an earlier 18th century church. The older church was probably built on the site of an earlier medieval one, next to which there was a cemetery with stećak tombstones …
Crkvine are one of the most important and complex archeological sites in Dalmatia, systematically researched and displayed. Its development begins in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, centered around a sinkhole with water …
The church was built in 1914 and it features three valuable althars, the work of craftsmen from Tyrol. The wooden carved altars and the statues made by these craftsmen were quite popular in Croatia in the late 19th and early 20th century …
The old parish church with a cemetery was probably built at the location of the medieval church that had a graveyard with “stećci”. One is preserved in the chapel and it serves as an outside altar …
While Blue and Red lake are world famous, many other and equally attractive lakes are almost unknown. In the municipality of Lokvičići with five villages, there are as many as three of them …
At Prolosko blato there is an island called Manastir with the remains of a Franciscan monastery. The Franciscans lived here from the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century during the Ottoman rule over these regions …
In Proložac, there has always been a crossing over the torrents of Suvaja, most likely on the site of today’s bridge. This crossing is one of the reasons why the settlement grew here since prehistoric and Roman times …
The Church of the Assumption at Durmiševac was built in 1873. Since the nearby church on Opačac, owned by the Franceschi family, was neglected for a long time, the Bishop of Makarska allowed the parish priest of Proložac to build a new church to celebrate the Assumption …
The early Christian basilica at Crkvina in Zmijavci has a three-nave floor plan with two apses on the east side and a three-part narthex on the west. In the north nave of the basilica, next to the west wall, there is a smaller round baptistery …
The parish church of Our Lady of Carmel was built in 1869, while its bell tower was built in 1999. One of the bells in the bell tower is from the 18th century. There are three valuable altars in the church …
This church was built in 1974 after lengthy struggles with local authorities over the site and the building permits. It is dedicated to the first Croatian saint, Nikola Tavelić, a Franciscan born in Šibenik …
High above Imotski rises the fortress Topana, located above the gorges of the Blue Lake. The fortress has an irregular shape that follows the shape of the gorge on which it was built, about 40 meters long …
Today’s parish church of St. Francis was built in the second half of the 19th century near an earlier demolished church. The church is a monumental, three-nave building, built in the neo-Romanesque style, facing east-west …