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 yourself in your travelogues. Located right next to Split on the western side and the mouth of the Žrnovnica River on the other, it began its history in the Iron Age as the settlement of Epetij. An excellent position in a sheltered bay with fertile fields in the interior provided it with a significant commercial boom in the Hellenistic era when it was surrounded by a rampart with two faces, while today’s name is owed to its patron Saint, Saint Lawrence. The river delta once offered a rich hunting ground for fish and game, and the activity of collecting salt was interwoven 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, Empress Maria Theresa also gazed at the beauty of this landscape on her journey through her Empire and decided to stop and take a break from the heat of a summer’s day as she dipped her tired feet into the clean and clear water… On the left bank of the river, you will find another surprise: a large, naturally shaped rock known as the Zmijski kamen (Snake Stone), a mythological place under Perun which is protected as a cultural asset.