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Ražanac is a small town in Dalmatia. It is situated in the SE corner of Velebitski Channel. Ražanac is well equipped with the various service providers vacation makers might ever need. Guests will find groceries, doctor, drugstore, post office, internet cafe,  hairdressers, library and it is all in Ražanac.

Due to its location Ražanac offers a chance to explore the region and as a place to spend the nights after day trips. Across the channel is the enchanting park of nature, Paklenica. Zadar is less than thirty minutes drive to the south, and Nin, the ancient Croatian royal town with its famous sandy beach lagune.

In  Ražanac you will see the 17th century baroque church, the renovated medieval St. Andrew’s Church, the remains of the town fortress, the impressions of the old town with its partly abandoned old houses and the traditions of the locals with Morlach and Bunjevac elements, just like the Ražanačko kolo dance.

The name of Ražanac was first mentioned in 1332 in the list of goods of Vučina Martinušić from Zadar. But there are numerous items from the Stone Age, a large burial mound from the Early Bronze Age to the position of Sibenik, and archaeologically Liburni tombs northwest of the town, the site of Gajetovica, to the continuity of habitation since prehistoric times. The most important remains liburian culture preserved in Radovin and Ljuba on the peninsula, where there is visible artificially created hill of Venac, converted into a natural fortress.

Although significant remains from the Roman period have not yet been documented, the discovery of an early Christian basilica in dual Podvršje testified that during the late antiquity, the area between the two fertile fields was a center of population, Ražanac was a famous small city.

In this time, Ražanac is a tourist town with a lot of houses, apartments and everyone who comes in Ražanac, Croatia, will be thrilled and will return again.

Clear sea, clean air, beautiful nature, tranquility of Ražanac, it is a pleasure to spend a vacation.