The small church is dedicated to St. Anthony the Abbot and was mentioned back in the 14th century. Today, it is a simple sigle-nave church of square ground floor and a rectangular shrine behind the Gothic triumphal arch with a ribbed vault. The shrine dates back to the period when the church was mentioned for the first time and probably represents its only remains, with the front of the church subsequently reconstructed. The fraternity of the Saint's...

The Monastic church of St. Andrew was built before the monastery around the mid 11th century, indicated by its architectural features. It is a time when the early Christian architectural traditions came to life. The church is divided by four pairs of columns and five arches in three naves and three protruding semi-circular apses. Recent research has shown a high degree of preservation of the original parts of the church. Stone colonnade columns supported...

The Church is situated in Gornja ulica (the upper street), with its right lateral wall leaning against the remains of the Romanesque style Basilica of St. John the Evangelist dating back to the 5th century. The single-nave building the front rectangular nave of which is separated by a balustrade (a row of columns topped by a rail) from the raised presbytery (sanctuary) with the Late Baroque altar made of polychrome marble. The panel painting, also known as...

The Church of St. Nicholas (Cro. Crkva sv. Nikole), originally named the Church of the Holy Spirit (Cr. Crkva sv. Duha), was built in the 13th or 14th c. in the Late Romanesque style. Recent research has indicated that it originated far earlier, with the remains of the semi-circular apse and the completely preserved triumphal arch being found. Following the demolition of the semi-circular apse, the present sacristy was built, though clumsily, in the 19th...

The church is situated at the foot of the Kamenjak Hill, in a field in Supetarska Draga and it dates back to the second half of the 11th c. (1059). It is the oldest church on the island with the oldest Benedictine monastery located next to it in the past. The monastery was founded by the Bishop Drago from Rab in 1071. The church is a three-nave basilica with the facade having the form of a basilica and the features of the Late Romanesque period of the 12th...

The biggest investment project of all times on the Island of Rab was the construction of the Rab Cathedral bell tower, the most beautiful building of that kind on the eastern Adriatic coast. It was built some 50m west of the Cathedral. For a long time it was the second tallest building on the eastern Adriatic coast, towering over all the Istrian and Dalmatian bell towers and preserved ancient buildings with being 26 m high. It was built in Romanesque style...

The Bell Tower of St. Andrew is the oldest bell tower on the island, situated next to the church facade at the centre of the monastery and was built in 1181 in Romanesque style. The inscription of its dedication on the plate inside the tower mentions the Archdeacon Kuzma (Cosmas) as the client at the time of the influential nun Ivana (Ioanne) and Bishop Andrija (Andree / Bishop from 1177 to 1193).During the recent reconstruction and research, the remains...

The tower was erected in 1672 with simple Baroque-style features and the arched dome as the last of the four Rab bell towers in a row, thus completing the unique, harmonious and distinctive panoramic view of Rab. The arched roof resembles the bishop mitra. There is a bell inside the bell tower dating back to 1354. It is divided into floors with small monoforas on each floor, larger ones on the second and bifras on the top.One can enter the Villa Antonieta...

The Romanesque-style bell tower was erected in the second half of the 12th c. next to the church at the end of the southern wall, close to the sanctuary. It is very similar to the tower of the neighbouring Monastery of St. Andrew (Cro. Sv. Andrija), constructed at the same time. Rab is well-known fr its four bell towers, this one next to the ruins of the Church of St. John the Evangelist (Cro. Sv. Ivan Evenđelista) being the last one in a row from the top...

The monastery of the Franciscan Sisters of St. Anthony the Abbot is located in the oldest part of the Kladanac town centre, on the very top of the peninsula as part of the eastern and western city walls leaning against the cliff overlooking the sea. It was founded by the Duchess of Modruš Mande (Magdalena) Budrišić in1494 for Franciscan Sisters by the vow given following her escape from Lika, fleeing the Ottomans. The church belonging to the monastery...