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.
The distance to the city of Zadar is 25 km, the coastline around Vir measures 31,43 km.
On the islands coast side you will find a large number of lovely bays and sandy beaches, most of them untouched, nice for swimming or for anchoring with your boat. A particularity is the woody islet of Skoljic with its long sandy beach, in close vicinity to the bridge that connects the island of Vir to the mainland.
Thanks to its central location in the Croatian Adriatic Vir is ideal as a starting point for various excursions, e.g. to the 4 national parks Paklenica with its impressive canyons, the archipelago of Kornati with about 200 islands and islets, the Krka waterfalls and the Plitvice lakes.
In the near vicinity are the old-Croatian town of Nin and the 3000 years old Zadar, whose pictorial old town contains a huge amount of cultural heritage.