Position and name

Brač, with 394.6 km2, is the largest island in Dalmatia. It anchored like a huge ship in the picturesque archipelago of Dalmatian islands. Today, there are about twenty settlements on Brač, among which the most famous is Bol .

Bol is an exceptional settlement in many ways. The first and oldest island town on the coast. He chose a location not like other coastal settlements on the amphitheatrical slopes of sheltered bays, but rather alone and separate, on the southern, open coast, along the beaches that are connected like beads in a necklace. Above Bol rises steeply the Bolska kruna mountain range, the fortified Koštilo, with its Illyrian hillfort, and Vidova gora, the roof of the Adriatic.

The name Bol is derived from the Latin vallum, which means “burial”, “earthen rampart”, “earth-fortified settlement”. The Latin vallum has the same meaning as the Old Croatian word obala (=”mound”, “embankment”). The name most likely originated from the crossing of the Roman appellative vallum and the Slavic obal. Bol was first mentioned as a locality in 1184. year in the Povaljska listina made in the building of the so-called Bishopric (Dominican monastery). Bol was first mentioned as a settlement in the 10th century. October 1475 in the deed of gift by which Prince Zacharia donated the Glavica peninsula to the Dominicans.