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A quiet inland village and, below it at the head of the bay, a small domed early church, a warm family beach and a wakeboard cable.
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From the D102 between Krk Town and Punat, Kornić is easy to miss, and so is the tiny cross-shaped, domed church of St Donatus, standing by the water at the innermost point of Punat bay. Below the village the sheltered inner bay gives warm, calm water, a Blue Flag beach and a cable park where teenagers ride while parents watch from a terrace. Up in the village there is a square with a café and a konoba, the church where the Camino Krk ends, a shaded trim trail through woods and olive groves, and a family sheep-cheese farm a few minutes away in Lakmartin. It is a stop on the way rather than a destination, and a very good one from Vrbnik (12 minutes).
When to come: Beach and cable 1 May to October; the ethnographic house opens on summer evenings only (15 June-13 September). The church and trails all year.
A small church of Old Croatian architecture in a Byzantine manner: a cross-shaped plan under a dome, faced with small squared stones. Its style points to the 9th century, while the inscription in front of it gives the 12th; it was in use until the 16th century. Its altar, statue, mosaics and frescoes are lost. The Austrian conservator Anton Gnirs restored it fully in 1914. At the end of the Second World War an explosion of ammunition stored nearby badly damaged it, above all the dome, and the architect Aleksandar Freudenreich rebuilt it three years later into what you see today.
Tip: Walk round it slowly: the interest is the plan and the dome, not decoration. Then walk the few metres to the shore for the view down the bay to Košljun.
A pebble beach, also called Galapagos beach, between St Donatus church and Malo More cove. Its relatively warm water suits families. Next door, Wakeboard Cable Krk pulls wakeboarders and water-skiers round the bay; parents sit on its beach pub terrace while teenagers ride.
Tip: Beach bar Galapagos is open all day into the night (08:00–02:00 in 2026): quiet by day, livelier with music in the evening.
Kornić's 3.8 km trim trail runs through shady woods and olive groves, with fitness stations along the way, and ends at St Donatus looking across to Košljun and Punat. For a longer walk, the Olive Path (Put maslina, route 122) loops 9.5 km from Krk via Kornić, Muraj and Lakmartin, and the 7 km 'Sylvan circle' from St James adds the village folk house.
Tip: Walk it down to Sv. Dunat, swim at Dunat beach, and walk back up in the evening shade.
The small square (Placa) in the upper village: coffee at Ča, burek from the Ilirija bakery, and the parish church of St James the Apostle, where the 150 km Camino Krk pilgrim route finishes after its last 21.4 km stage from Baška via Jurandvor, Batomalj and Punat.
Tip: Buy the burek early: the bakery closes at 14:00. For a villa dinner, try Marea's takeaway: the tuna and the octopus salad are the dishes to order.
The Mrakovčić family has made sheep cheese here since 1984 and has grown from 9 to about 150 sheep. The farm sells plain and flavoured cheeses (rosemary, walnut, truffle), olive oil, olives, dried figs and fig spread, and has won more than 50 awards. Its kušaona (tasting room) serves farm food at lunch.
Tip: Buy an aged cheese and the dried-fig spread together.
A 19th-century village house with more than 700 objects over three floors: a cooper's workshop and farm tools, olive and wine gear on the ground floor, a kitchen with hearth, bread oven and hand mill above, and a period bedroom at the top. Entry is free.
Tip: A rainy-evening stop before dinner at Marea on the square.
At Sv. Dunat: a 100-space pay lot (coins, cards, Bmove) and a free 60-space lot beside it; the cable park lot is free for customers. In Kornić village: free lots by the square.
Trgovina Krk on the square, Mon–Sat 07:00–14:00; Pekara Ilirija daily 07:00–14:00; post office Mon–Fri 08:00–11:00 plus Tue and Thu 12:30–15:30; a kiosk and greengrocer by Dunat beach; olive-oil and honey shops in the village. No Sunday grocery in Kornić: use Punat (Sun 08:00–13:00) or Krk Town.
Paid public toilets at the Dunat car park; a free drinking-water tap on Kornić's square.
Curated by Benjamin Haller and our guests · Facts checked 31 Oct 2026 · How this map is made
The Krk Map is made by Marim Luxury Villas, a family company that hosts guests in Stara Baška and Vrbnik. No place pays to be on it; partners and our curators’ own offers are marked. Our villas