Jelsa a small port town on the northern coast of the island of Hvar. Jelsa has a long rich tradition in tourism. The first hotel, Jadran, was built in 1911, and in 1913 the first illustrated guide-book in the Croatian language was printed. Today Jelsa is an important tourist center. Major attractions of this popular seaside resort include sports and recreational opportunities such as tennis courts, tennis camp, miniature golf, bocce courts, water sports, diving school. It also has an exquisite gastronomic offer - fresh seafood and famous wines of Hvar. Excursions are regularly organized (Bol, Makarska, etc.). Occasional cultural and entertainment programs are organized in the summer months. The major event is the Days of Antun Dobronic (20th of July - 20th of August).

The first habitation grew out around the small church of St. John in the Field, which was in the 17th century reconstructed and converted into a Baroque-style structure of an octagonal ground-plan. A square was formed around the church and it got its present aspect in the period between the 17th and the 19th centuries. - The fortified parish church of Sts. Fabian and Sebastian, built in the 16th century, is a three-nave structure covered by a stone barrel vault. One of the Baroque altars is a work by the wood-carver Antonio Porri. The New Park features a monument to the Croatian composer A. Dobronic (1878-1955) by S. Drinkovic. - In the vicinity of Jelsa are the remains of a Greek fortress called Tor, and on the locality of Crkvica the remains of an antique structure.

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