Museum sights in Hvar Island

1. Franciscan Monastery & Museum

   • Hvar Island, Croatia
   • Sights › Museum

   The 15th-century Franciscan monastery and museum overlooks a shady cove. The elegant bell tower was built in the 16th century by a well-known family of stonemasons from Korčula. The Renaissance cloister leads to a refectory containing lace, coins, nautical charts and valuable documents, such as an edition of Ptolemy's Atlas, printed in 1524. Your eye will immediately be struck by The Last Supper, an 8m by 2.5m work by the Venetian Matteo Ingoli dating from the end of the 16th century. The cypress in the cloister garden is said to be more than 300 years old.

   The adjoining church, named Our Lady of Charity, contains more fine paintings such as the three polyptychs created…

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   Bishop's Treasury

   • Hvar Island, Croatia
   • Sights › Museum

   The Bishop's Treasury, behind the tower and adjoining the Cathedral of St Stjepan, houses the cathedral treasury of silver vessels, embroidered Mass robes, numerous Madonnas, a couple of 13th-century icons and an elaborately carved sarcophagus.

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