VISOVAC ISLAND - Monastery - National park Krka
The Visovac Monastery is a Roman Catholic monastery on the island of Visovac
in the Krka National Park, Croatia. Visovac Island is situated in the middle of
Visovac Lake.
Visovac was settled by Augustinian monks, who established a small monastery and
church dedicated to the Apostle Paul in the 14th century. In 1445 the
Augustinian monastery was enlarged and adapted by the Franciscans who settled
here having withdrawn from parts of Bosnia with other, ordinary people, when the
Turks had taken over there. The rich monastery library includes particularly
rare incunabula of Aesop's fables and a sabre belonging to Vuk Mandušić, one of
the best-loved heroes of folk epics.
