Makarskais a tourist centre, located on a horseshoe shaped bay between the Biokovo mountains and the Adriatic Sea. The city is noted for its palm-fringed promenade, where fashionable cafés, bars and boutiques overlook the pretty harbour where many pleasure craft are moored. Adjacent to the beach are several large capacity hotels as well as a camping ground.

The center of Makarskais an old town with narrow stone-paved streets, a main church square where there is a flower and fruit market, and a Franciscan monastery that houses a sea shell collection featuring a giant clam shell.

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Makarskais a tourist centre, located on a horseshoe shaped bay between the Biokovo mountains and the Adriatic Sea. The city is noted for its palm-fringed promenade, where fashionable cafés, bars and boutiques overlook the pretty harbour where many pleasure craft are moored. Adjacent to the beach are several large capacity hotels as well as a camping ground.

The center of Makarskais an old town with narrow stone-paved streets, a main church square where there is a flower and fruit market, and a Franciscan monastery that houses a sea shell collection featuring a giant clam shell.

Makarskais the center of the Makarska riviera, a popular tourist destination under the Biokovo mountain. It stretches for 60km between the towns of Brelaand Gradac. In the summertime tens of thousands of tourists flock to the area from Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden, Slovenia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as other countries.

Sights

    * St. Mark's Cathedral (17th century), in the Main Square.
    * Statue of the friar Andrija Kacic Mio¿ic by the famous Croatian sculptor Ivan Rendic.
    * St. Philip's Church (18th century).
    * St. Peter's church (13th century), situated on the Sv. Petar peninsula, rebuilt in 1993.
    * The Franciscan monastery (16th century). It houses a library with numerous books and rare incunabula's and a famous, world known collection of shells from all over the world, collected in a Malacological Museum from 1963.
    * Napoleon monument, erected in the honour of the French Marshal Marmont in 1808.
    * The Baroque Ivanisevic Palace.
    * Villa Tonolli, which is home to the Town Museum.