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Hiking trip on Sveti Ilija Mountain, Peljesac

Hiking trip on Sveti Ilija Mountain @ Peljesac: 1/ Morning departure from Korcula by local ferry to Orebic: 2/ Views from the ferry over the summit of Sveti Ilija: 3/ Views over Peljesac Channel and Korcula Old Town – half the way up: 4/ Hiking through the wooded bit of …

Views over Korcula archipelago while driving along Peljesac

A few days ago while I was driving by car towards Orebic I took a short video clip of passing along ‘Kapetani’ part of Peljesac. Kapetani is that bit of the Peninsula that offers truly great views over Eastern end of Korcula island including Raznjic, Lumbarda, Skoji and Korcula town. …

Wind Power Takes Off at Peljesac in Autumn This Year

A�short update of my Wind Power Takes Off at Peljesac post from 2007 with�some�additional, very�good news:� The German company WPD from Bremen �is currently working on the new wind farm on Peljesac peninsula. On the slopes in vicinity of Ponikve the company is erecting�nine (9) Enercon E70 turbines of the …

Poster of Ston

Ston, the small & pretty town on Peljesac Peninsula�is featured in one of the promotional posters published by Croatian Tourist Board, as part of tourism promotional campaign Croatia – The Mediterranean As It Once Was.�The author of photograph is Ivo Pervan, a well known Croatian photographer who took a photo, …

Two towers restored in Ston at Peljesac Peninsula

The two towers of the Ston Walls have been restored recently in restoration led by the Association of Friends of Dubrovnik Antiques which is in charge of Ston Walls. Through the restauration, Barabanata Tower has been converted into art gallery while restoration of the Arcimun Tower converted this tower to …

Introducing: Milan Tolj and his photos of Peljesac and Korcula

Milan Tolj is amateur photographer from Orebic, who regularly uploads photos of Peljesac Channel and Korcula Town to our KorculaInfo.com Facebook fun page. Milan is lucky to live in Borje, a small hamlet about 8 km od Orebic, a stretch of coast that has great views over the Skoji Archipelago, …

The Salt Works in Ston

Today’s addition to our Korcula photo gallery is poster published by Croatia Tourist Board as part of their campaign based on the motto The Mediterranean as it once was’.�The poster explores the meditative aspect of reflections and pattern of salt works in Ston on Peljesac. Ston is a village well …

Peljesac Wines featured in The Economist

In last week’s�edition�of The Economist, under the title “Wine producing in the former Yugoslavia makes a comeback”, among other Balkan wines, wines from Peljesac Peninsula were also featured. Here is an excerpt from the article: ‘Standing on the steep slopes of the Saints Hills vineyard on the Peljesac peninsula in …

Inspiring Views: From Novi Puti

On cold and sunny winter’s day in Korcula, late afternoon walk along Eastern side of Novi Puti, in near vicinity of Forteca, will give you this view over Skoji – the Korcula archipelago and Peljesac. Note the shades of violet colour on hills of Peljesac Peninsula, which, due to temperature, …

Dalmatian Christmas Carol in Trpanj on Peljesac

Here is my final post with Christmas theme: “Spavaj, Spavaj, Diticu” is traditional Dalmatian Christmas Carol that was performed by KUD ‘Moreska’ last night in Crkva Svetog Petra i Pavla (St Peter and St Paul’s Parish Church) in Trpanj on Peljesac Peninsula. The conductor was Goran Milosevic.