About Sukošan
Sukošan is a small town and a harbour in the vast bay „Zlatna luka“. It is located along the Adriatic tourism road between Zadar and Biograd na moru.
Sukošan is a beautiful holiday resort, with a spacious and cultivated long coastline, numerous intimate coves and clean clear sea. Known as a nautical center, Sukošan is a site of Zlatna luka Marina, the Tustica Nature Complex, pebble beaches, comfortable camping sites, distinguished buildings, olive groves, vineyards, hospitable people and tradition.
A name Sukosan or Sanctus Casanus, was mentioned for the first time in one legal document in the year 1289, but the village itself is much older. A medieval settlement has been founded at the bottom of the shallow and sheltered lagoon called Golden Harbour.
In the tame landscape of the Sukosan lagoon, on the artificially made small islet, Zadar’s archbishop Matheo Valaresso built a summer palace. This palace represents a most significant example of the pastorally architecture of the 15th century. In the time of the ottoman attacks, local inhabitants found a shelter inside the walls of palace. After turbulent war centuries and several earthquakes which hit this region, the palace almost vanished. Only three walls as modest remains of former palace still jut out of the sea, which are most impressive during the summer solstice, when the sun sets down precisely between two walls.
The beginning of tourism started at the end of the 20s of the last century. During the summer, 500 tourists mostly from Czech Republic and Germany visited Sukošan. They were the ones who named the unique beach with shallow sea „Dječji raj“ (Children’s paradise).These were the times when the first pensions in the town were opened, so that we can say that in 1938 began an organized reception of tourists.
