As if drawn on the canvas of the old masters, anchored on a small, elongated peninsula in the palm of the Adriatic, Stobreč at first glance invites you to immortalize it in your travelogues for yourself. Located next to Split on the western side and the mouth of the Žrnovnica river on the other, it began its history as early as the Iron Age as the settlement of Epetij. An excellent position in a sheltered bay with fertile fields in the interior ensured a significant commercial boom in the Hellenistic era when it was surrounded by a rampart with two faces, and today’s name is due to its patron Saint Lawrence. The river delta offered a rich hunting ground for fish and game, and the activity of salt picking was woven into the toponyms, Slanice and Soline. Žrnovnica descends to the mouth with its waterfalls and rapids in a 4.8-kilometre-long course. According to legend, the Empress Maria Theresa once gazed at the beauty of this landscape while traveling through her Empire and decided to stop and take a breather from the heat of a summer’s day as she dipped her tired feet into the clean and crystal water. On the left bank of the river you will find another surprise: a large, naturally shaped rock called the Zmijin kamen (Snake stone), a mythological site under Perun protected as a cultural asset.