Puntamika Lighthouse Zadar

Puntamika peninsula in Zadar is a place with Marina Borik and the famous beach of the same name, but it keeps other surprises and attractions for a curious traveler. There is a lighthouse Oštri rat at the top of the peninsula, often called Puntamika as the peninsula on whose coastline it is standing and revealing it to the sailors. There are little professions romantic like that of a lighthouse keeper, more so because today this vocation dies with every one of them. Sometimes a flame had to be maintained to keep on the light in the eye of the lighthouse, a lighthouse meant a fireplace of home for those who came back from the gloomy seafront. Today, lighthouses are automated and electrified, even using solar energy, as is the case with one of the Kornati islands lighthouses. Today, lighthouses are just a reminder of the lonely life of lighthouse keepers under the twinkling light of the path signs. The Puntamika Lighthouse in Zadar is one of the 50 lighthouses that Austro-Hungarian monarchy has donated to Croatian coast and the Adriatic seaplanes. It was built in 1869 at the north of the entrance to Zadar harbor. The lighthouse keeper`s house is still here, with a 14-meter high tower whose light stretches 15 Miles all around. If you rent an apartment, room or holiday house in Zadar, take a walk to the Puntamika Lighthouse following the light that dances over the roofs of the city. The lighthouse and the wall around it are listed as Croatian cultural and historical heritage. There is no more a lighthouse keeper there, but you`ll find the romance is still there under the bright light of the Puntamika Lighthouse Zadar.