Korčula

Korčula is an island in the Adriatic Sea, in Southern , near . According to some sources, Marco Polo may have been born here.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral of St. Mark and Our Lady of Angels.

Church
The also called Korčula Cathedral, is the Roman Catholic church in , . It occupies an elevated position in the town centre.

Monastery
Photo: Aradic-es, Public domain.
Our Lady of the Angel is a monastery near , a town on the peninsula, in the , . The monastery was built at the end of the 15th century under the Republic of Ragusa, to which the town of belonged between 1333 and 1806.

Islet
is an islet.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Orebić and Žrnovo.

is a port town of 3,700 people in . Tourism is one of the town's main sources of income, especially during the summer months. The town's main beach is at Trstenica.

Village
is a village on the island of Korčula in . Korčula is an island on the coast of the Adriatic Sea and administratively belongs to the Dubrovnik–Neretva County of Croatia.

Village
Kućište or Kučišće is a small village on the southern coast of the peninsula in Dubrovnik-Neretva county, .

Korčula

Latitude
42.9604° or 42° 57′ 37″ north
Longitude
17.1353° or 17° 8′ 7″ east
Population
2,660
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
United Nations Location Code
HR KOR
Open location code
8FJVX46P+53
Geo­Names ID
3197710
Wiki­data ID
Q13288
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Upper Sorbian—“Korčula” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Korčula
  • Arabic: كورتشولا
  • Azerbaijani: Korçula
  • Azerbaijani: Kоrçulа
  • Basque: Korčula
  • Belarusian: Корчула
  • Bosnian: Korčula
  • Breton: Korčula
  • Bulgarian: Корчула
  • Catalan: Korčula
  • Cebuano: Otok Korčula
  • Chinese: 科爾丘拉島
  • Corsican: Curzola
  • Corsican: Korčula
  • Croatian: Korčula
  • Czech: Korčula
  • Danish: Korčula
  • Dutch: Korčula
  • Esperanto: Korčula
  • Estonian: Korčula saar
  • Estonian: Korčula
  • Finnish: Korčula
  • French: Île de Korčula
  • French: Korčula
  • German: Curzola
  • German: Korcula
  • German: Korčula
  • German: Melaina Korkyra
  • Greek: Κόρκυρα Μέλαινα
  • Greek: Κόρτσουλα
  • Hebrew: קורצ’ולה
  • Hungarian: Korčula
  • Indonesian: Korčula
  • Indonesian: Pulau Korčula
  • Italian: Curzola
  • Italian: Isola di Curzola
  • Japanese: コルチュラ島
  • Korean: 코르출라섬
  • Latin: Corcyra Nigra
  • Latvian: Korčula
  • Lithuanian: Korčula
  • Luxembourgish: Korčula
  • Macedonian: Корчула
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Korčula
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Korčula
  • Norwegian: Korčula
  • Occitan (post 1500): Korčula
  • Ossetian: Корчулæ
  • Ossetian: Корчула
  • Persian: کورچولا
  • Polish: Korčula
  • Portuguese: Korčula
  • Romanian: Korčula
  • Russian: Корчула
  • Scots: Korčula
  • Serbian: Korčula
  • Serbian: Корчула
  • Serbo-Croatian: Korčula
  • Slovak: Korčula
  • Slovenian: Korčula
  • Spanish: Korčula
  • Swahili: Korcula
  • Swedish: Korčula
  • Turkish: Korčula
  • Ukrainian: Корчула
  • Upper Sorbian: Korčula

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Korčula”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.