Å ilo is a
village in the north-east of the
island of
Krk,
Croatia, population 384 (census 2011).
It is one of the
tourist centers of the
Dobrinj municipality.
Geography
It is located in a well-sheltered
lagoon called Stipanja, which is naturally enclosed by a
cape called Punta Å ilo. It is located across from
Crikvenica, which is a tourist town on the Croatian coast. Å ilo is separated from it by the Vinodolski Channel, which is only wide.
Å ilo is connected to the rest of the island of Krk by a regional road. It is 5 kilometers away from the center of its
municipality,
Dobrinj. It is also 20 kilometers far from
Krk Bridge; 19.1 km from the main city of the island,
Krk; 13.6 km from
Vrbnik, another settlement on Krk; and 47.7 km from
Rijeka
Rijeka ( , , ; also known as Fiume hu, Fiume, it, Fiume ; local Chakavian: ''Reka''; german: Sankt Veit am Flaum; sl, Reka) is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia (after Zagreb and Split). It is located in Primor ...
, which is the most important Croatian harbor and the third largest city in the country.
Stipanja bay is well protected from eastern and southern winds by a narrow and low peninsula at the end of which cape
Punta Å ilo is located. At the end of this cape there is a
lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
Lighthouses mar ...
which emits a light beam:
B BI 3s, whose maximum range is .
Å ilo is the largest village in the municipality of
Dobrinj, and it has the longest tourist tradition. It has numerous
beautiful, sunny, and preserved pebble beaches and coves. Above Å ilo there is a lovely old settlement called Polje,
which, alongside of modern houses, has also preserved the traditional rural way of building as well as a traditional way of life.
History
Å ilo was established by people from
Crikvenica and
Selce. The town has gained importance by development of
tourism and the wish of people to travel to the islands. For a long time it was a link between the island of Krk and the continent. For these reasons on 19 February 1905 in Šilo the ''Krk Skydiving Society'' was established. After its foundation it bought a steamboat called Dinko Vitezić, and on 1 June 1905 it opened the regular Šilo – Vrbnik – Crikvenica boat line.
Tourism began to grow after the 1959, when the
ferry
A ferry is a ship, watercraft or amphibious vehicle used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi ...
between
Crikvenica and Krk began regular service.
The basis of Å ilo's economy is agriculture, fishing, tourism and ship building. Å ilo also has an auto camp, tennis
courts, cafes and pizza places, a post office, a pastry shop, tourist agencies, a clinic, and the Municipality of Dobrinj
Tourist Board, as well as the biggest economic entity of Dobrinj municipality – a construction company.
References
External links
* http://www.tzo-dobrinj.hr/silo.asp
* http://www.klimno.net/silo_hr.htm
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Populated places in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
Krk