Prižba is a small village on 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 ...

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. Korcula is part of the

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n coast and it belongs to the Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Prizba is part of the Municipality of Blato. This village is located on the southern coast of

, and its shape follows the coastline. Prižba is 10 km away from the town Blato, 16 km from

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, 4 km from Brna and 8 km from Smokvica. Prizba is made up of several smaller bays and two peninsulas, Ratak and Priscapac. Priscapac is also a small tourist resort with a small pebble beach.

Culture

In the center of Prižba there's a small

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. In Prizba, the Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified Petković wrote the Constitution of her Order in 1920.

Economy

The village's economy is based on tourismPrižba details
korculainfo.com; accessed 3 December 2015. and associated activities, whereas originally it was almost exclusively fishing as this was a pure fishermen's village. At one end of Prizba is the tourist complex called ''Prišćapac'', which has a sports-diving centre.

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Blažena Marija Propetog Isusa Petković
marijapropetog.hr
Prižba
on maps.google.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Prizba Korčula Populated places in Dubrovnik-Neretva County

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