Today
Jelsa is an important tourist centre.
Major attractions of this popular seaside
resort include various accommodation facilities
- hotels, apartments, campsites - and
sports and recre-ational opportunities
- tennis courts, tennis camp, miniature
golf, boccia courts, water sports, diving
school. Important is also exquisite gastronomic
offer - fresh seafood and famous wines
of Hvar. Excursions are regularly organized
(Bol, Makarska, etc.).
Occasional cultural and entertainment
programs are organized in the summer months.
The major event is the Days of Antun Dobronic
(20th of July - 20th of August).
Jelsa, a small town and port on the northern
coast of the island of Hvar. Economy is
based on farming, viticulture, olive growing,
fishing, shipbuilding, seafaring and tourism.
Jelsa is located on the regional road
running throughout the island. In the
mid-19th century, the marshland around
the coast was reclaimed and the new centre
of Jelsa was gradually built there. Local
roads connect Jelsa with the neighbouring
villages (Pitve, Vrisnik, Svirce, etc.).
There are also regular ship lines with
Split and Bol on the island of Brac.
The first habitation grew out around the
small church of St. John in the Field,
which was in the 17th century reconstructed
and converted into a Baroque-style structure
of an octagonal ground-plan. A square
was formed around the church and it got
its present aspect in the period between
the 17th and the 19th centuries. - The
fortified parish church of Sts. Fabian
and Sebastian, built in the 16th century,
is a three-nave structure covered by a
stone barrel vault. One of the Baroque
altars is a work by the wood-carver Antonio
Porri. The New Park features a monument
to the Croatian composer A. Dobronic (1878-1955)
by S. Drinkovic. - In the vicinity of
Jelsa are the remains of a Greek fortress
called Tor, and on the locality of Crkvica
the remains of an antique structure. |
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