Brna is a village on the southern coast of the island of
Korčula
Korčula () is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea. It has an area of , is long and on average wide, and lies just off the Dalmatian coast. Its 15,522 inhabitants (2011) make it the second most populous Adriatic island after Krk. The populat ...
in western
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...
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In the 19th century, Brna served as an overnight base for
fishermen from nearby
Smokvica, and had a pier that was used for the export of wine. During the 1970s, the village became populated with summer homes for Smokvica residents, and now caters to tourists with a hotel complex and numerous apartments.
To the northwest is the bay of Istruga, with deposits of
therapeutic mud.
File:Brna gobeirne.JPG, Brna is situated on a sheltered bay that opens to the south-west.
File:Sunny Brna.jpg, Brna center view on "Mali" and "Veli" Mol
File:Brna,1960.muleniblog.jpg, Brna in the 1960s
External links
Smokvica Tourist Organisation, BrnaHotel "Feral", Brna
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Korčula
Populated places in Dubrovnik-Neretva County