With its natural beauty and clear sea, surrounded by 46 islets and cliffs, it belongs to a group of ten Mediterranean islands with the most preserved values of untouched nature and beauty. Covered in forests, apart from the 46 traditionally cultivated fertile fields and preserved churches, the island is, due to its geographical location, filled with traces of all the periods of history, from the Prehistoric times, the Classical period and the Middle Ages until today.
The town Lastovo is a medieval town with amphitheater construction, surrounded by hills, which shape has served for defensive purposes. Smaller settlements have developed in several island bays, namely Lučica, Zaklopatica, Skrivena Luka, Pasadur, and since ancient times the area of the town Uble has been defined as the main island port.
For millennia it has received and fed travelers on the high seas – visitors who sang about the island’s “sources of eternal youth” as well as the blessing of twelve golden life-size statues of the apostles. Legends and myths have been a part of customs, traditions, feasts and everyday life that still exist until this day. The island is famous for Dobro Dobričević, printing incunabula, and the inventor Antica. Mediterranean climate and rich flora and fauna were preconditions for naming saint Cosmos and Damian the patron saints of the island. The island is full of magical fruits waiting to sharpen the senses of every passenger, guided and overwhelmed by the crystal starry sky.
