10 Churches & Cathedrals in Krk Island That You Shouldn't Miss

This church is a valuable example of the late Croatian architecture built in the byzantine style in the 9th century. Built in the form of three cores with a cupola, with a layout in the form of a cross, covered with sculptured rock in the forms of small squares. Unfortunately at the end of World War 2 the church was severely damaged by a munitions explosion that was kept near the church. It is scheduled for further restoration and reconstruction in the near future.

There is a legend that says that during the cholera plague in Punat, St. Roch appeared to a Punat resident named Jakov Raguzin his sleep. St. Roch told him that the cholera in Punat will stop if the inhabitants of Punat build a church in his honour. The church was erected on the Nova Placa (part of the town of Punat) in 1855. On the facade of the church there is a slab on which in the Latin language is written that the church was built on the holy glory of St. Roch and St. Sebastian.

Situated on Buka, it was built in 1911. St. Nicholas (Sv. Nikola) is the patron saint of the sailors and because of that the sailors from Punat wanted to build this church in honour of St. Nicholas, their bishop and patron.