Church of St. Lucy

The Romanesque Church of St. Lucy in Jurandvor dates from the turn of the 11th to the 12th century and stood beside a Benedictine monastery, which, according to the Baška Tablet, Abbot Dobrovit founded on land King Zvonimir had granted to Abbot Držiha. The single-nave building ends in a semicircular apse, and the bell tower carries the master builder's signature, "Maister Andreas me fecit". The tablet lay in the church as part of the altar screen and was discovered in 1851. The original is kept by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, while a cast stands in the church. The Benedictines left in 1465, and in 1817 the estate passed to the Diocese of Krk. A rewarding stop for anyone drawn to Croatia's Glagolitic heritage.