Bisevo Island gets a project worth 27 million HRK

Figures about the island near Vis, some 4.7 nautical miles southwest of Komiža, show that it has an area of about 6 square km, two sea attractions, the world-famous Blue Cave, but also the Bear Cave. Also, the island has only 11 inhabitants all year round.

That is the island of Biševo in numbers, but soon with its name and an invitation to tourists will be information about the newly built “Visitor Center Blue Cave – Biševo” in the old school building in the heart of the island.  There will also be 12.3 km of hiking and biking trails, but also a camera for tracking Eleonora’s falcons, and finally a “make-up” tunnel, i.e. the area of the artillery battalion on Cape Galijula, which stretches in the bowels of the earth at a depth of 35 m, above the southern bay of the island named Trešjavac.

All this was presented to the Split-Dalmatia County Prefect Blaženko Boban, his associates and journalist teams, during a tour of the southernmost inhabited island of the county, which would now receive additional projects worth 27 million kuna.  About 18.4 million kuna is non-refundable money from EU funds. This is great news for both the small domicile population and for the many visitors who increasingly choose the Vis archipelago as their destination.

Difficulties of the project

Domagoj Lažeta, director of the Public Institution SDŽ “More i krš” said that in partnership with the City of Komiža, Komiža Tourist Board, “Blue World Institute for Marine Research and Protection” from Mali Lošinj, they are implementing this important project, where the bunker will get a new function, as well as the renovated old school building.

Regional leader Boban is extremely satisfied with the deadlines according to whose schedule everything should be ready by October the 1st. He also adds there were minor difficulties with material delivery due to the COVID pandemic. The county is the founder of a former primary school that is now abandoned and it will be, like some other abandoned schools in the county, converted for tourism purposes. It would be nice if the domestic tourists would be interested in coming here because we are not even aware of what kind of beauty we have.

However, the locals are aware of this wealth, especially Zvonko Brajčić, the youngest resident of Biševo at the age of 45 and a construction engineer and manager Ivan Čurlin who took over the role of guide.

Source: Slobodnadalmacija.hr