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Vir, a popular weekend resort, offers nice opportunities for a quiet holiday within the family circle. It attracts with its sandy and pebble beaches, crystal clear sea, domestic specialities and food as well as with it water sports offer - surfing. Those who prefer long walks can climb the island's highest peak, Bandire (112 m), and enjoy an impressive view on the whole island of Vir, the neighbouring islands and Velebit Mountain. Frequent winds offer refreshment during the summer heat.

St. John's Day (29th of August), celebrated at the same time as the Municipality Day, is a tradi-tional folk feast.

VIR, a village and small harbour on the island of Vir; population 860. Situated on an elevation, 300 m from the shallow sandy Sapavac cove. Chief occupations are farming, wine production, livestock breeding, fishing and tourism. Vir lies on the regional road.

Ruins of a small pre-Romanesque church of St. Nicholas were excavated in the port, and the small Romanesque church of St. John (12th-13th c.) is on the graveyard. Remains of a wall with towers and a gate of the former Venetian 17th-century citadel (kasteli) were found along the coast.