Slano
Sign in to saveSlano is a village in southern Croatia with a small harbour in the bay of the same name. It is located 27 km northwest of Dubrovnik.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Slano
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Mjesto Slano 2020.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Slano
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Croatia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- border|23px Dubrovnik-Neretva County
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Dubrovačko Primorje
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 12.3
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2021
- Settlement.population_total
- 577
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
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Slano is a village in southern Croatia with a small harbour in the bay of the same name. It is located 27 km northwest of Dubrovnik.
==History== thumb|280px|Franciscan church in Slano The area of Slano was already populated in the prehistoric period (ruins of a hill-fort and tumuli on the nearby hills) and in ancient times (a Roman castrum on the hill Gradina; early Christian sarcophagi, today exhibited in front of the Franciscan church). In 1399, Slano fell under the rule of the Republic of Ragusa; once the duke's seat (duke's palace, reconstructed at the end of the 19th century). The summer villa of the Ohmučević family is situated in the vicinity.