The place :
- The soline coast is a real "touristic pearl". In the, aproximatley 3 miles long and a mile wide and almost as the lake closed coast with clean and warm sea, on its edges quite pitoresquely are placed the touristic towns called:Klimno, Soline, Cizici, and Meline, and each one of them has it's own charm wich attractes tourists.
- Our riches on which we are proud of, our advantage towards the other touristic places, is untouched nature, which includes pine forests together with dense deciduous vegetation and tipical mediteranian landscapes with pitoresque brown bullheads and short plants, clean sea with sandy beaches, tame, sicured coasts ideal for sailing, surfing and water skiing and other water sports, naturally healing mud which healing attributes are scientificaly proved, and numerous cultural and historical places worth seeing.
The history:
- At the begining of the VIIth century, the Croats have inhabited the Krk island, coming accros the sea from the east land, wich makes it understandable why the east parts of the island are the oldest settlements on the island. Furthermore, east part of the island is the cradel of Croatian literacy and culture because in those settlements in towns Dobrinj, Omiš, Vrbnik and Baška , sprouted out the oldest croatian letter (The Glagolitsa), which steadilly persists up till today.
- Among all the oldest settlements the place called Soline has the most eventful history for the economy of the dobrinj's teritory. At the foot of the Soline, on Melinah, exist the salt- pans since the roman times in which the Romans as they claimed made an excellent salt in such amount that it was exported, and together with the lamb's meat was probably the first exported good in dobrinj's district. Later on the salt- pans were succesfuly used by the Frankopan Dukes, but only by the end of the XVth century, after which they were abolished by the Venetians, because with it's excellent salt they were a competition to Venetian salt-pans.
- But, since XIth century , when we first mentioned it, political, administrative and church centre of this area was Dobrinj. Certainly,ever since than it was called a town, according to the latin word castellum, as it was, together with six towns castells in the middle age. But with one difference, it wasn't surrounded by walls, and that is because why throught the history it suffered damage more often than other towns.
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