Kučiće

Kučiće is a village in the Omiš hinterland, occupying rising ground above the lower Cetina and beneath the slopes of Omiška Dinara. Although administratively part of the City of Omiš, it is not a coastal resort: Kučiće lies about 12 kilometres from Omiš and the Cetina estuary, at approximately 200 metres above sea level. Its written record reaches back to 1315, when Prince Juraj II’s charter mentioned the settlement as Cuchani. The principal local monument is the cemetery church of St Luke. Archaeological work in 2016 uncovered the foundations of a small Gothic church with a rectangular apse, dated between the mid-fourteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. St Luke’s present form derives from the mid-eighteenth century and an enlargement during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Hamlets, karst fields, the Cetina and the steep frame of Omiška Dinara define the Kučiće landscape, making the village more relevant for exploring inland Omiš than for a beach holiday. The Omiš–Kučiće–Zadvarje road, completed in 1899, still explains its position between coast and hinterland.