Town of Vis
Vis has always been a town and for a short period a state as well.
At the beginning of 19th century 12,000 people lived here from all over Europe. That influenced Vis’ language where you can find, besides the derivates of the Venetian dialect, English, French, German and even Hungarian words.
Compared to Hvar or Korčula, Vis faces the land and is open to everything coming from there. Its port even today offers shelter for many fishermen and seamen, lost researchers and other dejected adventurers.
That is how the Greeks from Syracuse found the port of Vis which reminded them of home.
Hvar poets created Kut (the Corner) as the sun caressed them from the west during the winter months.
In contrast, Vis land workers constructed Mola bonda e Mijurovac for the sun to wake them up from the east at dawn.
