Sacral objects

The Church of St Nicholas was built in the 15th century from stone, on top of the ruins of the Late Antique period building of which one part of one wall remained preserved (˝opus spicatum˝).
The late baroque church of St Cyprian and Justina was built in 1742 in the eastern part of Vis, in the region known as Kut. Here, there was once a church built at the beginning of the 15th century, whose remains are still visible in the rear wing of today’s church, with an immured opening of a Gothic window.
It was built in the 9th century on a small peninsula situated at the entrance to the deep Vis bay. The Vis bay was named after it in the middle Ages becoming the Port of St George. There was also an islet at the entrance Škoj Sv. Jurja (the cliff of St George) as well as Jurjevo brdo (George’s hill) to the east, and St George is the patron of the town of Vis.
The Church of St Spirit was built in the western part of the port of Vist, in the second part of the 17th century or maybe at the beginning of the 18th century.
The Church and monastery of St. Jerome were built on the small peninsula of Prirovo at the beginning of the 16th century. The church façade was made of marble taken from the adjacent ruins of ancient Issa, primarily from the Roman theatre over which the Franciscan monastery was built.
This church was named after smaller semi-caves that were on the site where it was built.
In 1462, Dominicans from the Monastery of St Mark from Hvar were given permission from the duke of Hvar to build a house and garden on the municipal land plot in Kut.
The turbulent period of the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th century turned Vis into an important center of piracy, smuggling, and intelligence.