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This town in
the picturesque bay on southern coast of the eastern
Adriatic, at the outskirts of Dubrovnik, at the very
important cross-roads of civilizations, has been the
interest area of local and global significance from time
immemorial. Today's municipality of Neum with its 224 sq.km.
and 5000 inhabitants, occupies some 20 km of the coast and
the adjacent karst valleys.
The
Mediterranean climate with the specific flora and fauna
spreads throughout the area enabling the population to grow
olives, figs and vine.
The sea abounds in all kinds of fish and sea-shells, while
higher up in the hills there are fine game and birds for the
hunters. Typical farm animals are sheep, goats and cattle.
Important places, beside the town of Neum itself, are
Hutovo, Hrasno and Gradac, Catholic parishes of the diocese
of Trebinje.
To visitors,
beside the hotels and warm and clear sea, we recommend the
Queen of Peace shrine and the Gallery of Hrasno, St.Johns
church, Ethnological Museum, collection of stone monuments
at Hutovo, St.Ann's church at Gradac (17th c.) as well as
number of small and large medieval tombstone necropolises,
churches, crosses, mounds and ruins, and last but not least
the CRNULJA cave in Popovo polje with the longest krast
underground stream in Europe, the river of Trebišnjica.
The
neighboring Ston and Klek, with their identity drawing from
the Dubrovnik tradition, HUTOVO BLATO with the Europe's s
largest wading birds preserve , add to the tourist picture
of Neum which is quite impressive.
Your
pleasure will be complete if you visit any of the numerous
popular feasts, drink to the merry hosts and dance the
traditional LINDŽO dance.
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