MARCO POLO AND PIRATES
The past has richly endowed Korcula; starting from the third millenium BC the Illyrians, the Greeks and the Romans were celebrating life by building palaces and towers, and while the stone-masons were carving stone lovers, highly competent seamen were navigating the neighbouring seas.
There are legends about the courageous pirates from Korcula, very skilfull at their trade, filling their coffres with real treasures and many valuable objects. This island, whose inhabitants live with the sea and from the sea, is the home of the explorer and travel writer Marko Polo, the man who for Europe discovered the Far East, but returned to his native Korcula, its coves and the promontories of the archipelago consisting of 48 islands. Visit Korcula - a fairy-tale island that exists in real life! |
