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Tisno is the youngest town on the
island. It has1430 inhabitants and it is situated at
the point where the island of Murter almost touches
the land with which it was connected by a bascule bridge
in 1832. The new part of town was built on land and
named Gomilica. The town is known for its spacious
shops, green vegetation and long quay.
The land part
of Tisno is growing fast in recent times. Many summerhouses,
suites, restaurants and small family hotels were built
there. The centre of the old town is on the island.
Southeast from the bascule bridge and behind the last
houses and the church of Sv. Andrija lays a rocky beach.
A wood shelters this beach and a 1000 metres long promenade
stretches alongside it. Tisno became an important religious
centre owing to great votive pilgrimage of Our Lady
of Karavaj.
Nowadays, inhabitants of Tisno live from
farming, fishing and crafts but the most important
branch of economy is tourism, which finally returned
to central Dalmatia . Every year there are more and
more tourists and their number reaches the figures
counted before the war. |
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