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Stari Grad

Stari Grad is a town on the northern side of the island of Hvar in Dalmatia, Croatia.

Stari Grad
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The place

Stari Grad is a town on the northern side of the island of Hvar in Dalmatia, Croatia. One of the oldest towns in Europe, its position at the end of a long, protected bay and next to prime agricultural land has long made it attractive for human settlement. Stari Grad is also a municipality within the Split-Dalmatia County.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stari Grad

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Church of St. Stephen

    The Church of St. Stephen (Crkva sv.

    1.2 km · church building in Stari Grad, Croatia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tvrdalj Castle

    Tvrdalj Castle is a castle in Stari Grad, on the island of Hvar, Croatia. Tvrdalj was the summer residence of Petar Hektorović, the Croatian poet.

    900 m · Building in Stari Grad, Hvar, Croatia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Stari Grad

Airports
Split Saint Jerome (SPU), 46 km · Mostar (OMO), 103 km · Zadar (ZAD), 142 km
  • Split → Stari Grad
    38 km · quickest by ferry, 3h 28m · €12.5–54
  • Zadar → Stari Grad
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · €6–8
  • Dubrovnik → Stari Grad
    137 km · quickest by road, 5h 48m · €20–28
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stari Grad

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Stari Grad. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inJadrolinija Ferries sail between Split and Ancona in Italy 2 or 3 nights a week, taking 11 hours.
  • Get aroundFerry routes to the islands are: Trogir to Drvenik Mali and Drvenik Veli.

From Wikivoyage: Split-Dalmatia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    6 km
  2. 02
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    51 km
  3. 03
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    91 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    563 km
  5. 05
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    722 km

If you know how people move in Stari Grad – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.