Housed at the Beli Visitor Centre, this place is home to, at last count, six juvenile griffon vultures that are being prepared for tagging and release into the wild. There are interesting displays on the species, and you can wander out to look at the enclosures.
Rescue Centre for Griffon Vultures
Cres Island
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Roman Amphitheatre
29.67 MILES
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Trsat Castle
15.88 MILES
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Stara Baška
18.35 MILES
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Paradise Beach
27.7 MILES
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Lubenice Beach
15.83 MILES
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St Blaise’s Church
26.84 MILES
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Castle
22.32 MILES
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Pazin Chasm
22.34 MILES
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Nearby Cres Island attractions
1. Beli Beach
0.77 MILES
An archetypal Adriatic beach – secluded, wonderfully quiet and strewn with pebbles – 130m below the pretty village of Beli.
2. Plaža Girandella
9.27 MILES
Rabac's best beach is this series of pebbly coves in front of the immense Valamar Girandella resort complex. It's well maintained by the resort, but most…
3. Ruta
10.98 MILES
This local collective promotes the island’s cultural tradition of wool weaving and felting. Using the discarded wool of indigenous Cres sheep, the…
4. Trg Frane Petrića
10.99 MILES
Right by the harbour, the main town square was the scene of public announcements, financial transactions and festivals under Venetian rule. It’s now the…
5. St Mary of the Snow Church
11.01 MILES
Just inside the main harbour gate, this church is notable for its Renaissance portal with a relief of the Virgin and Child. A glassed-in foyer allows you…
6. Cres Museum
11.05 MILES
Housed in the Arsan Renaissance palace just off the harbour front, this local museum is worth the modest entry fee for its 16th-century Venetian…
7. Fortress
11.22 MILES
Labin's fortress once stood at the highest point of the old town. There's no longer a fort to speak of (although there is a canon) but it's well worth…
8. Labin Public Museum
11.28 MILES
The ground floor of this museum, housed in the baroque 18th-century Battiala-Lazzarini Palace, is devoted to archaeological finds. Upstairs is a…