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Omiš

A small old town where the Cetina River breaks through a canyon to the sea, below pirate fortresses.

Photo: Sergei Gussev · CC BY 2.0
Open
Always
Price
Free; paid for rafting and zip lines
Time Needed
Half a day
Address
OmišDirections
Getting There
About 40 minutes by car or bus south along the coast.

Why Go

Omiš was a pirates' lair in the Middle Ages, and two fortresses still watch over it. Rafting, canyoning and zip lines run in the Cetina gorge just upstream.

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