Savina

Savina is the hillside neighbourhood one kilometre east of the old town, built around the Savina Monastery — three Orthodox churches on a single terraced compound. The Little Church of the Dormition dates to the early 1400s and is decorated with frescoes from 1565. The Great Church, finished in 1799, was built by Korčulan master Nikola Foretić in pale Brač stone, visible on clear days from Lustica across the bay. The Church of Saint Sava, the smallest, sits at the top of the complex under ancient cypress trees. The monastery treasury holds a 1375 cross-reliquary attributed to Saint Sava and a Queen Jelena icon from the same century. Below the monastery, the Savina coastal path follows an old Austrian military road to a string of small pebbled beaches — Dobreč, Ploče and the campsite-adjacent Soko cove — ending at the small marina at Meljine. Local buses stop at the ring road; from there it is a five-minute walk uphill through the pine forest to the monastery gate.