Apartments Franica Lumbarda

Apartments «Franica» are located in the family house with terraces overlooking the village centre, marina, sea and islets in front of Lumbarda. We offer accommodation in three two bedroom apartments (spare bed or crib possible). Two apartments are suitable for two to three persons (A2+1) and one for two to four persons (A2+2). Apartments are fully equipped (satellite TV, heating, grill). Village centre (grocery shops, post office, bank-machine, restaurants) is 120 m away, sandy beach 200 m. Wellcome drink. Pension, breakfast, mooring, boat trips, boat rental and a guided tour of island of Korčula upon request. Pets are wellcome.

Lumbarda is a municipality with just over 1,000 inhabitants, six kilometres east from the city of Korcula. It extends around a small bay and on the hills behind it, and is surrounded by large sandy vineyards. Lumbarda is reached along a good asphalt road that passes through a picturesque area of pine woods and olive groves.

In the 3rd century B.C. a Greek (Hellenistic) agricultural settlement was founded here from which originated the Psephism and the gnathia vases found in graves (now in the Town Museum). There was a Roman villa rustica (rural estate) in the field north-east of today´s village near Bilin zal beach. Since the 16 century prosperous Korcula landowners built summer houses called kastel on choice sites in Lumbarda, some of them still well preserved and inhabited: the Nobilo, Milina, Krsinic kastels. St Roch´s parish church (Sv. Rok) with a nave and two aisles stands on Vela glavica hill in the middle of old Lumbarda, and there are several small old chapels in the village itself: St Bartul, St Peter, The Nativity of the Virgin (Mala Gospa). The church of the Holy Cross (Sv. Kriz) from 1774, in front of which is a characteristic porch, is surrounded by vineyards. For centuries the people of Lumbarda were farmers, mostly grape growers, fishermen and stone-masons. Several prominent modern Croatian artists, sculptors and painters were born here: Ivo Lozica (1910-1943), Lujo Lozica (1934), Stipe Nobilo (1945), and the most important of all, Frano Krsinic (1897-1981). He made the bronze Second World War Memorial in the centre of the village and the bronze relief Fishermen on the hotel. Nearby is the studio-house and collection of the local amateur sculptor, the peasant Ivan Jurjev-Knez (1920), who works in stone and wood. Today the local people are also engaged in tourism: there are hotels, several camps, many private pensions, restaurants, shops, and a small marina. The Ivo Lozica cultural and performing society in Lumbarda cultivates music, singing, folk dancing and amateur dramatics. The beauty of our village on the vine-clad hills has attracted people for millennia. Its stones bear witness to the long history of man’s enjoyment here of the riches of nature. The famous Psephisma from Lumbarda (now in the Archeological Museum in Zagreb) was chiselled in the third century B.C. to record how Greeks from the island of Issa (now Vis) built and organised their community on this shore. “Good luck” it begins. And fortune has been here through the tumultuous centuries of Lumbarda’s history, as different peoples with different cultures came to fish, grew wine, settled, adapted the landscape, and shaped the picture of Lumbarda today. That´s why we invite you to come to Lumbarda. Listen to the timeless winds tell our story; dive into the blue depths and discover the beauty of our sea; soak up the sun on our unspoiled sandy and rocky beaches stroll along our forest tracks; sail to our little desert islands offshore; try our unique golden Grk wine and enjoy the many tastes of our local cuisine. Our Lumbarda has all this and you are welcome to share it with us.