Krk Old Town & Walls

Krk was ruled for centuries by the Frankopan princes, whose castle still stands in the town, before passing to Venice in the 15th century. The walls and the cathedral complex grew over many centuries — the Romanesque cathedral of the Assumption sits beside the early Christian church of St Quirinus and the Roman thermal baths — and the town’s Italian name, Veglia, reflects its Venetian period. The island’s Glagolitic script, the old Slavonic alphabet, survived here longer than anywhere else in Croatia.