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Puteus Palace Heritage Hotel
Pučišća, Croatia · Independent · High Luxury
Puteus Palace is a 1467 palace on Trg svetog Jeronima in Pučišća, Brač, rebuilt as a fifteen-key heritage hotel: thirteen doubles and two suites around a walled garden pool. The stone house is among the oldest palaces still standing on the Adriatic, now an independent five-star.
- 15 rooms
About Puteus Palace Heritage Hotel
- The palace dates from 1467 in the stone-carving town of Pučišća.
- Fifteen keys: 13 double rooms and two suites, including a large royal suite.
- A secret garden and pool sit inside the palace walls.
History
Pučišća fortified itself in the fifteenth century with Renaissance towers against raiders; one of those towers is built into Puteus Palace. The standing palace on Trg svetog Jeronima is dated 1467, among the oldest palaces still on the Adriatic, later known as Palača Dešković. Later ranges of the 1700s wrap the tower. Four original wells in the courtyard give the Latin name puteus.
The town's white limestone fed a stonemasonry trade; a stonemason school opened in 1909 and still runs. After more than a year of reconstruction through 2018, the Barać family, through Kredenca, opened Puteus Palace Heritage Hotel on 15 May 2019, about three million euros into a protected monument: fifteen keys, a walled garden, and a pool behind the walls.
Guests sleep in a 1467 defensive palace that kept its wells.
Restaurants and bars
- Puteus Restaurant — Restaurant · Dalmatian & Mediterranean specialities
- Puteus Wine Bar — Bar
Experiences
- Secret Garden — Heritage garden of over 1500 m² within the centuries-old palace walls, with a terrace and pool.
- Gastro restaurant in renovated cellar — Restaurant in the newly renovated palace cellar serving Brač and Croatian specialities, for 50 to 75 people.
- Wellness area — Outdoor and private wellness area with outdoor pool, Finnish sauna, jacuzzi and massage.
- Vidova Gora — Highest mountain on the Adriatic islands at 780 m, a viewpoint about 20 minutes' drive from the hotel.
- Zlatni Rat (Golden Horn) — Long golden pebble beach 2 km west of Bol, about 15 minutes' drive from the hotel.
- Blaca Monastery Hermitage — Hermitage founded in the 16th century under the Karst caves of Vidova Gora, reached only on foot.
Amenities
- Pool
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