Page 14 - Discovering Hvar

In the foreground is the flat
and indented Kabal Peninsula
(from capo = cape), protected
from the north winds by
a 7.5 km deep Stari Grad Bay
(in the background).
In this bay, Greek colonists
from the Aegean island
of Paros defeated in 384
B.C. 6000 Illyrians in the
first known naval battle in
the Croatian Adriatic and
proceeded to found at its far
end the city of Pharos.
In 219 B.C. Roman fleet sailed
into the bay and brought
to an end the dream of
Demetrius, an ancient citizen
of Pharos, of his hometown’s
endless power and glory.
Kabal Peninsula is a protected
nature park, today as in the
past covered with dense
evergreen Mediterranean
underbrush made up of
myrtle, savory, strawberry
tree and rosemary, with a
pine forest at its summit.

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