Krk lies in the north of the Adriatic in the Kvarner Bay. Krk is also the second largest Croatian island by area (405.22 km²). Since 1980, it has been connected to the mainland by the Krški bridge. The largest town and administrative centre on the island is Krk. The island is connected by ferry to Cres and Rab. The island also has the international Rijeka Airport. The island of Krk belongs entirely to primorsko-goransko county and is divided into (largest) town of Krk and other smaller towns Dobrinj, Vrbnik, Punat, Malinska, Omišalj, Baška, Šilo.
Krk is also known as the wine-growing area (Vrbnik and the surrounding area), where you can taste a very familiar wine Vrbnička žlahtina.
History of island Krk
Krk has many historical and cultural sites.
There are many finds from prehistoric times on the island. The oldest known inhabitants were the Liburns. In the romans, the settlement “Curicum” was located in the place where the present-day city of Krk stands. The island was then changed several times over the centuries by its owners: Byzantines, several Venetians, Croatian kings, and from 1797 it experienced the fate of Istria and Dalmatia (Napoleon’s Ilya provinces), then belonged to Austro-Hungarian and from 1918 to Yugoslavia.
To this day, many verb monuments have been preserved on the island, including the 1388 Vrbanski Statute and the Vrbnički misal from 1642. Although the inhabitants have used verbs for centuries, it was probably introduced as early as the 11th century, and from this time it also originated one of the oldest known inscriptions in the verb – a inscription on the stone from the pre-European church of St. Lovra in the town of Krk.