Island Rab- BEST for CULTURAL EVENTS:

• For all; jung, all couples, families with children...There are numerous indor and open-air music events and Kultural performaces, as well as various art galleries or street exhibitions. It is also „sporty“ because of numerous possibilities of practising sport and recreational activities, ranging from diving, aquagan, water skiing, jet-skiing, surfing, rafting, renting a boat or a pedal boat, to parachuting, tennis, sand volleyball, football, basketball, handball, tennis, mini golf, boccia, cycling, trekking, motocross) ...diving centers and night clubs.

Beaches on the island Rab:

Rajska plaža (Paradise Beach) –Blue Flag aword, 2km long and sandy is one of the most famous beaches on the Adriatic with the greenest pine forest which offers protection from the sun. There are great camps, hotels and private accomodation.  In the vicinity there is a large sports centre containing a variety of playing fields and courts (tennis, football, basketball, volleyball), minigolf, table tennis, water slide and a variety of other water sports activities. The beach has restaurants, bars, life-guards, life-saving equipment, first-aid equipment, facilities for the disabled, rental facilities, recycable waste facilities, catering facilities, phones... Close are  other sandy beaches, like Sahara, Ciganka and Stolac best for nudism.

About island Rab:

One of the most developed is­lands considering tourism, with the area of 90.8 sq. kilometers. It has about 10,000 inhabitants in eight settlements. It is situated in the Kvarner bay, between the islands Krk and Pag. Rab has a few coves: Supetarska Draga, Kamporska Draga, Loparski zaljev, Sv. Fumija.

The climate is pleasant, with gentle winters and very warm sum­mers. It is counted among the sun­niest islands of the Adriatic (2,499 hours of sun per year). In the middle, arable part of the island, people grow olives, vineyards and vegeta­bles. The parts of the island are under macchia and forests of the Mediterranean oak. The biggest town is Rab and there are seven other settlements: Lopar, Mundanija, Supeterska Draga, Kampor, Banjol, Rarbat and Palit. It has fer­ryboat connections with the main­land on the lines between Mišnjak (on the island) and Jablanac (on the mainland), and between Lopar (on Rab) and Senj (on the coast). There is also the ferryboat connec­tion with the island of Krk: Lopar (on Rab) - Baska (on Krk). The is­land was inhabited in prehistory by the Illyrian tribe Liburni. For the first time, the island was men­tioned in 360 AD, and when the Ro­mans took it, they named it Arba.

Places on the island Rab:

RAB
This small town is one of the most attractive tourist centers on the Adriatic, thanks to its position, climate, rich vegetation, beautiful beaches, and abundance of sun, clean sea and cultural and historical heri­tage. The tourism began long in the past: the oldest report on that is the work of Albert Fortis »Viaggio in Dalmazia« printed in Venice, in 1774, where he mentions »isola di Arbem nel Golfo Quarnero«. How­ever, people from Rab take 1889 as one of the most important years for the development of tourism, beca­use in that year mister Schroeter, the doctor-balneologist from Vien­na, and professor Frischau from Graz came to the island of Rab and made a written suggestion to the district administrator that tourism should be more intensively devel­oped. Rab was also the first island in the Adriatic that introduced nudism. In the August of 1936, Edward VII and Miss Simpson visited Rab and with the permission the town magistrate, took a noode swim in the Kanderola cove that is even today a nudist beach.
In the time of the first Roman Emperor Augustus, Rab was a fortified base of the Roman fleet. In Middle Ages, it is the seat of diocese and the free commune. In the time of the crusades, the Benedictines came there and the cathedral was raised together with the monastery of St.Andrija and the prince's palace. At the same time different crafts and trade intensively develop. In the 15th century the plague destroyed the whole area. Till end of the century, a new town has been gradually built while the old, deserted part was left in ruins. The economic progress was also stopped by the Napoleon's wars, and at the beginning of the 20th century Rab became a health resort and famous of its swimming beaches. The old part of the town was encircled by the wall from the 12th and 13th century, that is even partly preserved. On the square you can see the Romanesque prince's pala­ce from the 13th century, the Go­thic church of St. Nikola, the Crnota Palace, the Gothic Cassio Palace, and the church of St. Andrija with the nunnery of the Benedictine nuns from the 11th century. The belfry of the cathedral is from the I2th-13th century. On the opposite side is the Romanesque basilica with three naves and with the late Gothic Pieta, work of Petar Trogirarin from 1514. The most beau­tiful town park, Komrčar, is pride of
Rab and its citizens. In the park there is also the Franciscan mona­stery with the church of St. Francis from 1491. There are also a few pa­laces: Nimira, from the 15th centu­ry (with a portal and arcades), Tudorin (the lion heads by the win­dow), Kukulić (with Renaissance scenes) and Maričić-Galzigna. In the summer months many cultural and entertainment events and exhi­bitions take place in Rab.
Hotels: International; Imperial; Istra; Bor; Riva; Padova; Eva ; Caro­lina ; Bungalows »Suha Punta« ; Pansion »Jadran«.
Camp: Padova .
Marina: ACI RAB, it is located on the eastern side of the inner part of the harbor, right behind the break-water. It has 150 places for yachts that have draught up to 5 meters, and that are not more than 15 meters long. On the shore, there are places for yachts on smaller and general repairs only. It is open only during the summer. In the marina complex there are restaurant, sho­ps, sport fields, toilets, parking lot, and gas station. Next to the marina is the hotel Padova. The marina also has crane (5 t), slipway, technical services, etc.

KAMPOR
The place in Kamporska Draga, six kilometers north-west from Rab. In the St. Eufemija bay there is a Franciscan monastery with a church from 1458. You can also see the older Romanesque church of St. Eufemija after which the bay and the monastery were named. The Gothic monastery church of St. Bernardin was restored in the baroque style in the 16th century. In the cloister of the monastery there is a collection of stone monu­ments with Roman, Old-Croatian and late medieval epigraphic and architectural fragments.There is also the sarcophagus of the founder of the monastery Nauda Budrišić, from the end of the 15th century. The monastery has a collection of illuminated manuscripts from 14th and 15th centuries and a incunabula. On the promontory Kaštelina, there are the remains a large Roman villa rustica (walls and mosaics).

BARBAT
The place on the south-west coast, in the Barbat Channel, parish church was built in 1850 on the location of the old Benedictine abbey that was mentioned in the 11th century. Above the town, the hill of St. Damjan, there are the remains of prehistoric hillfort ruins of medieval fortress.

SUPETARSKA DRAGA
The town and the cove in the north-western part of the island. The Benedictine monastery was founded there in 1660 and deserted in the 16th century. Part of monastery building was re-adapted into the parsonage in 1849. The tpresent church with three naves belonged to the monastery and it is the most preserved early Romanesque building in the Kvarner area. The belfry has two bells: one is from 1299 (the oldest that is preserved in the eastern Adriatic coast) ,and the other is from 1593.
Marina: ACI SUPETARSKA DRAGA, capacity of 280 ships lon­ger than 15 meters on the floating docks, and 150 more places on the dry docks. It is open through the whole year. Included in the marina are: shops, taverns, toilets, sport facilities, crane (10 t), slipway and technical services (repairs...).

LOPAR
The town in the bay of the same name on the north-western coast of the island of Rab. It has long sand beach surrounded with pine forest. The name of the place comes from the small church of St. Mary (Sta Maria Neopari) that was mentioned already in the sources from the 14th century. On the site Punta Zidine, you can still see the remains of the antique fortification archi­tecture. According to the legend, the legendary founder of the Repu­blic of San Marino, stone-mason Marin, was born in Lopar.