Apartments Vila Vitarnja Hvar

A mixture of sunny days, beautiful coastline, crystal sea, where you can see the shadows of boats at the seabed , beautiful nature and comfortable modern suites is what makes the difference between vacation and vacation that a man remembers for a lifetime.

Welcome to Villa Vitarnja - Terra Calma!

Apartments Villa Vitarnja are located in a quiet neighbourhood in a pine forest between Jelsa and Vrboska. From this apartment is a beautiful view to the island of Brac, Biokovo mountain and Makarska Riviera.

The position on the hill and healing pine forest acts favorably on the mitigation of health problems specifically related to respiratory and allergy in children and adults.

Due to the peaceful surroundings, the breeze that breeze through the woods and relaxing view of the sea, we called this place TERRA CALMA - Quiet country.

The first beach you reach at the 150 meter long path through the woods. Nearby are small coves with stone, sand and pebble beaches. Nearby are tennis courts, restaurant ...

Around the house is a large courtyard with a playground for children, swing, swimming pool, table tennis, sandbox, slide, barbecue and parking in the shade.

The villa has four apartments, two apartments with 4 beds (2 + 2), one with 4 beds (4 + 0) and one apartment with 5 beds (4 + 1).

Each apartment has its own bathroom with shower, fully equipped kitchen, large terrace with sea view and pool, satellite TV, air conditioning and wireless internet.

Our guests have free use of swimming pool, washing machine and bike.

One of the most beautiful walks on the island of Hvar is a walk along the coast from Jelsa to Vrboska, which lasted about half an hour. A walk through the pine forest along the picturesque bays is the perfect escape from stress, in winter or in summer.

Between Vrboska and Jelsa, is located Bay Vitarnja, here is complete peace and quiet, there are small bays with beaches, where you found the place for one family, the beaches is a lot of shade, our house is located above the promenade. The entire promenade in the shade of pine trees. In this area you will not really need air conditioning because it is covered with pine trees and has a very comfortable night sleep. Daily birds singing and afternoon mistral give this place a special charm.

This is a place that will become a part of your soul and will come under your skin. Any traveler who comes here, it feels it not only beautiful, but magical. Take a walk, sit on a rock on the coast, look up into the sea, sky, green trees and you´ll feel how the energy of nature comes to you. There is no time, no hours, only connection with nature.

First it was yachts – now it’s mega-yachts. Beautiful Hvar Island is now a required stop for restless international trend-spotters always alert to the latest island paradise. Hvar deserves the honour, for it is the sunniest and greenest of the Croatian islands. Called the ‘Croatian Madeira’, Hvar receives 2724 hours (roughly 240 days) of pure sunshine each year. The stunning interior is a panorama of lavender fields, peaceful villages and pine-covered hills.

For those that have never seen pictures of Hvar, I would describe it as the Caribbean made sweet love with St.Tropez and their baby; the beautiful island of Hvar. A melange of quaint beauty with rustic flare and luxurious sophistication makes Hvar the ideal destination for us cheap-skating backpackers and those slightly high-flying, big-boat-owning, 79 euro caviar eating, lavish-life living toffs.

Hvar has a lot of history -- and a lot of prehistory. It has been populated at least since Neolithic times. Note the terrace farming here preserves the rain water that would otherwise quickly drain through the limestone karst in the valleys.

The Dalmatian islands are typically parts of the Dinaric Alps whose gulches were filled in by the rising Adriatic sea about 12,000 years ago. Agricultural and herd animals arrived here, most likely from Italy, around 6000 BC. Typically with agriculture you get pots as you have to keep that grain somewhere. The late Neolithic Hvar culture flourished here for a millennium starting around 3500 BC. The Adriatic coast has over 50 archeological sites with fragments from their black pots. Hvar alone has 17 Neolithic archeological sites. Here´s another view of the terraces, some of which are UNESCO World Heritage sites as examples of Greek agriculture. Some have been in continuous use forever, if not longer. Terrace farming is important to preserve the rainwater (about 27" per year -- not all that different from the US Midwest area). But scarce fresh water disappears quickly through the porous limestone.

The soil is not suitable for raising grain, but works well with vines and olive trees. Often lavender makes for a more lucrative crop although it takes some tending. While Napoleon was in the neighborhood, the lavender crop mushroomed to serve the French appetite for perfume. Much of this area has an abandoned feel to it, and typically the lavender terraces seem a bit scruffy.

Since the Venetians brought vines in the 12th century, wine was also an important export but, as in France, the phylloxera critters wiped out the industry and many of the island´s agricultural workers left. The slopes and sun -- along with strong winds that keep insects at bay -- make this excellent wine country and Hvar´s wine industry has made a strong comeback. (Croatian and Hungarian wines -- dismissed for years as Eastern Block schlock-- are suddenly in vogue.) But sometimes the winds (named "Bura" for the North and "Yugo" for the south) are so strong that those who labor in the vineyards must be tied together with ropes.

Out of the over 1000 Dalmatian islands, Hvar is unusual for having both fresh water springs and large coastal plains. No surprise then that this isle was inhabited early, maybe even before it became an island about 12,000 years ago. Once people started to settle down with agriculture, they needed a place to stay. Besides inventing the wheel, Neolithic man figured out how to stack stones to create shelters with roofs and sides that repel water. Like the wheel, it was obvious how to do it in hindsight. Like wheels, these "trims" are typically round to avoid issues like corners. Today these mortar-less structures look like so many stone igloos dotting Hvar´s ancient stone-walled terraces.

The Greeks arrived in 385/4 BC, bringing the local indigenous tribes into history (writing) and a market economy. The Greek colonization of the East Adriatic was not particularly intensive; but two centuries later, this island was well positioned as part of the Roman Empire which saw free movement of people and goods along the entire Mediterranean and along the Atlantic from Africa to Scotland.

Some Hvar residents still work in marble quarries.Several guides informed us that the US White House was made from stone from Hvar.

At the north end of the island is Grabak Cave, a major Neolithic archeological site which once held many pottery fragments, knives, copper tools, and human and animal bones -- most of which are now a ferry ride away in a museum in the mainland city of Split. Descendants of this cave continued to be the majority of the inhabitants of Hvar island long after the Greeks arrived.

Conde Nast Traveler calls Hvar a 3-S tourist destination: Sun, Shore, and Sex. Instead we found here a 2-S site: Stari Grad and a lot of Stones just like the nearby stone-fenced Stari Grad Plain, the UNESCO agricultural site.