Krk Island - Kosljun

Kosljun is a small island located near Punat in the bay of Puntarska draga. It is about 750 meters away from the city and can be reached by taxi boat. The ride takes about fifteen minutes one way.

The tour of the whole island lasts about two hours, there are no restaurants on it. Swimming is not allowed in the area of the island of Kosljun. The island with lush Mediterranean vegetation has been inhabited since Roman times. In the 12th century, a Benedictine abbey was founded on the island, which was taken over by the Franciscans in 1447 and then a new monastery was built in the 16th century. Today, the island has a museum with an ethnographic collection, which displays a rich collection of paintings, coins, icons, books, folk costumes from around the island and rare copies of incunabula and verb manuscripts. The monastery also contains a rich zoological collection consisting of shells and unique animal specimens such as the lamb with one eye. The rich library contains about 30,000 books. There are two churches on the island, the Church of the Virgin Mary and the Church of St. Bernardine, where there is a sacral museum.

In the middle of the island, in lush vegetation, there are three chapels, called the Chapel of the Nativity from 1651, the Chapel of St. Cross from 1579 and the chapel of St. Francis of 1654. Various concerts of classical music take place in the atrium of the monastery during the summer.