Island Pag-DIVERTING:

• Novalja city, for exemple is the first city for the summer parties. But also families have oportunity to enjoy  beautiful place, warm weather, bathing in wonderful beaches with golden sand or pebbles. There are and many attractions for kids, great camps and sophisticated restaurants and bars for jung and families,  offers  sports like waterskiing, windsurfing, snorkelling, pedaloes, tennis, walking, bycikling, hiking, trekking.. You can go on rafting, kayaking... various choice of trips or to go diving and discover the wonderful underwater world, try to ski on water, jet ski, play paintball, ride super bike. Novalja is 270 kilometres long, full of bays, coves, capes and beaches.
  
  

Beaches on the island Pag: Zrce beach –in the Novalja city, which is surrounded by woods, and has great camps in vicinity. It is called „party beach“ because of it's three beach clubs, Aquarius, Kalypso and Papaya, which are open whole nights during the summer.

About island Pag: The area of Pag covers 284.6 sq. kilometers and it has about 8,000 inhabitants in 24 settlements. The south-western coast is low, and the north-eastern highland steep. The climate is Mediterranean. The most of the island is covered with bare rock and only the small part is under macchia {dense Mediterrane­an evergreen underbrush). In the fields and valleys people grow vegetables, vineyards, and olives.

The sheep farming is especially devel­oped (the famous cheese from Pag). The main settlements, Pag, Novalja, and Lun, are connected by the road. The island is connected with the mainland with the ferryboat line (Prizna - Žigljen; Jablanac - Pag, and Karlo-bag - Pag), and with the Pag Bridge. In the prehistory it was inhabit­ed by the Illyrian tribe of Liburni (the remains of forts and necropo­lis). At the beginning of the 1st century AD, the Romans built a system of fortifications and the big­ger settlements (Pagus). The Slavs inhabited the island very early; the­ir main settlement was Keša (pre­sent Novalja). In 1071, the king Petar Krešimir IV gave the north­ern part of the island to the church of Rab, while the southern part be­longed to Zadar. Therefore, in the Middle Ages, the island of Pag beca­me the place and cause of many confrontations between the citizens of Rab and Zadar. At the end of the 12th century Pag become the most important settlement of the island. Today Pag with developed tourism offers the picturesque caves and beaches, rich hunting-grounds, the famous cheese of Pag, and valuable monuments. The ornithological preserves of Povljansko and Kolansko blato are also interesting.

Places on the island Pag:

PAG
The small town, port and econo­mical center of the island. It is situ­ated on the south-eastern coast of the bay of Pag that gradually turns into a salty lake (the salt-pans of Pag). There is a cheese factory (the famous cheese of Pag), wine cellar (top quality wine žutica), salt-pan (3 km from Pag). A shallow sand beach is not far away. The lace company organizes the home production of the famous lace of Pag.
The antique Pagus was on the location of the deserted old town. The medieval settlement was given the status of the Free Royal Town by the King Bela IV in 1244, as the reward for help in fighting against the invasion of Tatars. In Stari Grad (the older part of the town), the parts of the medieval walls and the Romanesque-Gothic parish church from the 14th century are still visi­ble. The building of present Pag began in 1443, with regular street layout and Central Square, probably according to the plan of Juraj Dalmatinac, to whom is also attrib­uted the construction of the palace of the prince.
Hotels: Bellevue; Jadran; Pagus.

NOVALJA
The place and port in the cove of the same name, with sand beach­es in the coves Straško and Zrće. The town has developed on the loca­tion of the antique settlement Novalia, the harbor of Roman town Cissa (present Caska). In the house of Palčić, on Loža, there are remains of the Roman walls and medieval tower. There is also a well
preserved Roman underground water supply system (»Talijanova buža«), built in the first century BC. In the town, there are remains of the early Christian basilicas large Pre-Romanesque church from the 9th-10th century. Hotels: Liburnija; Loža
Camp: Strasko.

STARA NOVALJA (Old Novalja)
The settlement five kilometers from Novalja developed on the ruins of the antique settlement. The walls of that settlement are still visible in the sea. On the edge of the Novalja Field, you can also see the remains of the antique walls, antique necropolis and the ruins of the Romanesque church of St. Križ.

GAJAC
The settlement, four kilometer south from Novalja. Tourist apartments, gravel beach and green areas make it a perfect place for vacation.

LUN
The fishermen and tourist set­tlement on the uttermost North-west of the island. The traditional architecture is in an accordance with the centuries of peace of olive and fig grooves. The wild olives neat l.un are the special protected botanical area.

CASKA
One of the most beautiful beaches on the island. It is situated on the location of Roman castrum around which developed the settlement Cissa. The remains of Roman buildings, aqueduct and the ruins of the acropolis on the hill of St. Juraj are preserved from the antiquity.

ŠlMUNI
The town of fishermen in the cove of the same name on the west­ern coast of the island with beautiful sand beach.
Kamp: AS
Marina: ACl ŠlMUNI, a kilometer from the town of Pag. It has 175 pla­ces on the floating docks and 80 mo­re on the dry docks, and the maximal draught is 12 meters. It has crane (15 tons), slipway and technical services. The visitors can use toilets, shops and restaurant, they can also rent ships. The supply is from the nearby village Šimuni (1 km). It is open through the whole year.

POVLJANA
The place on the south-western coast of the island, famous of the medicinal mud, with muddy sea sediment that is used for curing of the rheumatic diseases.