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A thousand
years long history of the Town has left many monuments in the urban
structure of the Town. The Town Walls of Pharos were built by the The hotel complex Helios with high class hotels and bungalows possesses heir own sport grounds and beaches. There are also comfortable private accomodations, taverns and restaurants with healthy home-made food and traditionally good island wines. All gives an opportunity for unforgettable holidays.
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Stari
Grad (Faros) is historical heart of the island Hvar, ancient Pharos.
It was built on the place where the deep bay passes into rich island
fields, Arcadian valley whit vineyards and olive-groves. The town is
surrounded with pine tree forest and cooled with summer breeze (maestral).
In the hot summer days it is one of the rare Dalmatian places where
the air is fresh and the sleep refreshing. Stari Grad is situated in
the center of the island and it is an ideal place to start long walks
and trips around the sunny island field with the sweet smell of herbs
and flowers.
Greek
colonizers in 4th century BC, Roman mosaics, the Church of St. John
from the Early Christian period, the complex of streets built in the
Middle Ages and above all Tvrdalj - the Renaissance fortifield castle
with the fish-pond and Petar Hektorović's park (the poet of Ribanje
i ribarsko prigovaranje - "Fishing and Fishermen's Narrations")
are signposts through a millenium long life of the Town. A walk through
the Stari Grad center, narrow streets and small squares brings the whisperings
of the past times. 
