Where to find Europe’s top island holiday spot - without the tourists

SOUTHERN Europe is teeming with tourists at this time of the year. The Med is mayhem, the Riviera rife with crowds. Trains, planes, hotels, restaurants and monuments are packed as people from all over the world flock to soak up the sun in the south of France, Italy or the Greek ­Islands. Then there are places like Rasisce. Located on Korcula, one of 1185 islands in Croatia and ­reputedly the birthplace of Marco Polo, the tiny seaside village of Rasisce is a rare gem on which to stumble in bustling peak season southern Europe.

Korcula: hotel "Marco Polo" opened

From Monday, hotel "Marco Polo" is open in Korcula and preparing for the season in the HTP-in "Korcula" go according to plan.

- All employees of the company are engaged in arranging facilities and apart hotel "Korcula", which runs throughout the year, we opened the hotel "Marco Polo". For two days we open the hotel "Liburns" and part of the hotel "Park" will be April 13 ready for the casual acceptance group. Hotel and Apartments "Bon Repos" will open on May 10. This month we expect significant growth in the number of visitors compared to the same period last year - says Director of Marketing and Sales HTP "Korcula" Michael Grgic.

Museum of Marco Polo on Korcula

At the height of the tourist season in Korcula Museum opened to Marco Polo, the adventurer from the island of Korcula, in a distant 13th century then visited a distant and unfamiliar China.

The museum is an attractive tourism product that has enriched the offer of Korcula and the Croatian and the most famous journeys speaks in an original way. Visitors will be at the museum through seven scenes dočaranih superb scenery and hyper-realistic dolls, accompanied by an audio guide, pass life of Marco Polo from its movement on a journey from Korcula, caravans across the desert, all the way to the court of the famous Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.