Salt pans
South of town.
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Pag is the largest town on the island of Pag in northern Dalmatia, about 39 km north of Zadar in a straight line. About 2,300 people live in the town, and the island is linked to the mainland by a bridge at its southern end. Medieval Pag grew up near the salt pans, on the site of the abandoned old town about 3 km south of the present one, and its name first appears in the 10th century. The Hungarian king Béla IV granted it the status of a free royal town in 1244, and the present town was built in the 15th century. The salt pans still work, and the island is famous for Pag cheese and handmade Pag lace. The red-roofed town stretches along a clear blue bay ringed by bare, white rocky hills, almost treeless because of the «bora» wind. Boats moor along the waterfront in front of the town hall and a tree-lined quay, and the rectangular salt pans spread out south of town. Visitors wander the old town lanes and the quay and buy lace and cheese in the shops. Many pebble beaches ring the island, and its bare rocky landscape looks almost like the surface of the moon.
South of town.
Handmade.
Boats and town hall.
Pag town, Pag island, Croatia
Pag lace and Pag cheese.
Yes, by car from Zadar.