Lastovo

Island of Lastovo and it’s Archipelago became the Croatian Nature park “Lastovsko Otocje” in 2006. The Lastovo Archipelago is the eleventh nature park in Croatia.

With its 46 small islands, 46 churches and chapels, 46 vineyards, cliffs and reefs. Lastovo is amazing island for lovers of nature, for people who prefer sailing, who like a good food and wine.

This area is one of the most preserved marine areas in the Adriatic. Due to its values and characteristics it represents “a vast natural and partly cultivated area of land and the sea showing ecological features of national and importance, as well as pronounced landscape, cultural, historical, educational,  tourist and recreational values.

After fifty years, Lastovo is open to tourists again. In addition to the beauty of its unspoiled nature, the island is famous for its carnival in which all the island residents participate by wearing beautiful folk costumes.
Special tourist attractions of the island are the famous Lastovo chimneys that were once status symbols of old Lastovo families.

Lastovo is well connected by ferries from Split, Dubrovnik, Mljet and Korcula.

The protection provided is intended to preserve the inherited landscape and cultural values and biological and landscape diversity including the appertaining sea and the submarine area.

The lighthouse is found at the coordinates 42°43′27″N (North) and 16°53′05″E (East), Adriatic sea, Croatia.