The town of Milna, island of Brač in Croatia

The municipality of Milna gathers the localities of Milna, Bobovišća, Bobovišća Na moru and Pothumlje, with a total of approximately 1100 inhabitants; she belongs to the county of Split-Dalmatia.

Formerly industrial center of the island of Brač, Milna is today a seaside resort and a peaceful marina.

Milna named Milona at the time of the Republic of Venice.

Milna is to 18 km in the south-west of the port of ferry of Supetar which is connected several times per day to Split.

At the northern end of the port a house is, out of stone renovated, which was formerly the commercial premise of the monks of the hermitage of Blaca, and their opening on the world.

One can throw a glance with the pretty fountain located opposite the school; it is a work of the famous sculptor of Brač, Ivan Rendić.

A monument on the sea front is dedicated to the famous poet Tin Ujević (1891-1955), in which the mother was originating in Milna.

To admire the rural architecture, one can go up on the hill, from the sea front, while borrowing the narrow streets of the old village and the paths which curve to the vines and with the olive groves.

One century later, Milna counted approximately 500 inhabitants, and the chapel had become too small. A new church, of style baroque, was built in 1783, and was dedicated to Our Lady of the Annunciation.

One reaches the church of the Annunciation by a stone staircase; above gate, draws up, in the medium, the statue of the made Annunciation with Marie.

The interior of the church is divided into three naves by circular columns; it receives the light by the large windows located above walls of the central nave.

On the ceiling, carried out in stucco, one sees holy Clément, the martyr and patron saint of the place, God the Father and the reason for the Annunciation. The table of the “Annunciation” with a youthful archangel Gabriel and the humble figure of Marie dressed in modest clothing, account among the most beautiful tables of furnace bridge of the island of Brač; one owes it in Ricci, a Venetian painter of first half of the 18th century. From this time also two other tables go back to furnace bridge “the Virgin with saint Joseph, holy Jean, holy Pierre and holy Paul” and “Our Lady of the Rosary” with the sacraments of the rosary.

The old chapel became the sacristy of the new parish church. In this sacristy, are some invaluable works of a Venetian painter of first half of the 18th century, “Obedience of the Kings”, “Saint John the Baptist”, and others.

The sculptor of Brač, Ivan Rendić, also worked here; it is him who carried out the stone statue of saint Joseph placed on the high altar, and other monuments located in the cemetery: tomb stone of saint Thomas (Sveti Tomaš) and the chapel of the Mandinić family.

The bell-tower on the right side, with small decorative pyramids around the loggia, is registered among the typical bell-towers of the Dalmatian coast.

Besides its fishing fleet and of its shipyards, the port of Milna has a marina - with 200 stations of mooring - very appreciated yachtmen, of which much makes of Milna their starting point for the visit of the island of Brač and the area of Split.

While moving towards the south-western coast of Brač, by the course of Zaglav, one meets the split of Osibova (Uvala Osibova, a deformation of Josipova, the split of Joseph). There a Gothic chapel in ruins is, as well as a more recent vault, going back to 1836, which conceals a Venetian painting of saint Joseph.

Opposite bay of Milna the small island of Mrduja (Otočić Mrduja) is. Many legends surround this small island, but the history retains that one lit fires there in full safety to guide the ships, through the narrow channel which separates the island from Brač of the island of Šolta, until their destination with the wearing of Split. Around this small island is held, since 1927, celebrates it and traditional regatta of Mrduja (Mrdujska regata).

One can observe there the nature of the stone and the way in which it is output approximately cubic. One can buy also there small stone memories of Brač.

In the middle of the 19th century, the shipyards of Milna, in Pantera and Vlaška, produced 16 sailing ships of a total tonnage of 1328 tons to vacuum, that is to say 253 tons more than the total production of the shipyards of Split and the shipyards with Hvar, Komiza and Trogir at that time. A sailing ship of Dalmatian wood characteristic, it “will bracera” (Italian name of the island of Brač, Brazza), was created in Milna.

For the Napoleonean period, a naval battle took place in 1806 with the Door of Split, the strait opposite Milna, between the Russian ship of recognition “Aleksander” and the French who had their fort (an artillery battery) on the course of Zaglav (Rt Zaglav). Having been informed of the presence of the Russian ship in the Door of Split, the Marmont Marshal ordered with his artillery and his fleet to attack and capture the Russian ship. The inhabitants of Split informed the naval officers Russian of the intention of Marmont; as for the inhabitants of Brač, when the French left the port, they lit five fires on the hills to inform the Russians amongst enemy ships. The Russian ship demolished the French squadron and took the French battery on the course Zaglav; the place is now named Baterija (battery). The Russian ship entered in Milna and, with the most distinguished inhabitants of Brač, establishes the new power on the island. For one year whole, Milna became the capital of the island under the domination of the Russian tsar, and the port of Milna became the base of the Russian fleet in the Adriatic in 1807.

The port of Milna was the most important port of the island of Brač until the middle of the 20th century.

A factory of fish canning facility is still in service today.

Although the golden age of Milna is exceeded, the marina and tourism bring many summer tourists.

Two passages per day, lundis, mercredis and vendredis.