Dračevac Ninski: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

The first documented mention of Dračevac Ninski dates from 1327: it is found in a document from the archive of St. Krševan in Zadar. Over the course of its history, the settlement was destroyed and rebuilt several times.

Renting a holiday apartment in Dračevac Ninski can be part of your personal travel planning.

Churches

The cemetery church of St. Martin has been mentioned since 1550; a document from that year refers to it. During restoration work, finds were interpreted as evidence that the building dates from the 12th century. Two small windows are also considered evidence that St. Martin’s Church dates from the 12th century.

Originally, St. Martin’s had a semicircular apse, which was removed during a later modification. The church is a single-nave building with a rectangular eastern apse, 6 metres wide and 14 metres long. It was built in 1785 and is one of the sacred buildings in this area featuring late Baroque characteristics. It served as the parish church until the new parish church was built. The altar mensa of St. Martin’s Church was transferred from the church of St. Krševan in Zadar.

The parish church of the Sacred Heart stands in the centre of Dračevac Ninski, at a place called “Kod oraha”. It was completed and blessed in 1980; a sacristy was built for it in 1987. The church has a dedication plaque with an inscription in the Glagolitic script. The main altar is made of marble and includes a tabernacle. Later, a bell tower with two bells was completed for the parish church of the Sacred Heart. A Mass is listed for Dračevac Ninski at 8:30 a.m. on Sundays, including in July and August.

Landscape

The Early Neolithic settlement near Crno Vrilo lies in the area of the present-day settlement of Dračevac Ninski and is associated with significant remains of the Impresso culture. Systematic excavations describe Crno Vrilo as one of the most characteristic Early Neolithic settlement communities on the eastern Adriatic coast.

The abundant Crno Vrilo spring lies about 170 metres from the southernmost part of the Neolithic settlement in Dračevac Ninski, on the right side of the river valley. Crno Vrilo is a freshwater spring at the contact between carbonate rock and a sandy-marly flysch zone.

Routes

The Poličnik–Posedarje–Novigrad–Zadar road cycling loop passes through Dračevac Ninski on the return journey towards Poličnik.

Further pages in the local area: Poličnik, Briševo, Murvica.

To the higher-level travel overview: Općina Poličnik.