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An olive-growing sailors' town on a sheltered lagoon, with a Franciscan island monastery ten minutes across the water.
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On the front, Konoba Sidro is a family konoba for peka meat and goulash with homemade pasta, and Marina in the marina grills fish over charcoal and is open all year. Above the bay, Olive Garden Ulika serves dinner in an olive grove with night views over the marina, and Buka has an olive-grove terrace at the entrance to the bay.
Punta Debij is the shallow, sheltered town beach with a water slide: the easy one for toddlers. Medane, about 15 minutes' walk south, has loungers under olive trees and a beach bar (wear water shoes: there are sea urchins), and the Prniba coves across the bay are shaded, with a view of Košljun.
Paid lots line the seafront (Obala) and the harbour. The car parks at Medane cost EUR 8 a day (June 2025), Punta Debij has paid parking at the bus station or Camp Pila, and Marina Punat has free parking at the marina.
Punta Debij has very shallow water, a water slide, an aquapark and minigolf; do not count on a lifeguard. Buka has a kids' menu and high chairs, Gelateria Garden serves big sundaes in its garden, and on Košljun children love the two-headed lamb in the ethnographic room.
By taxi boat from the Punat quay, about 8 minutes each way; take the first boat at 09:15, Monday to Saturday, and avoid Sundays. A return ticket booked online costs EUR 9 (EUR 9.50 in peak season, 2026), and the museums on Košljun cost EUR 6 for adults, paid in cash on the island.
Punat sits on Puntarska draga, a sheltered bay joined to the open sea only by a narrow mouth; half of it is a big marina, the other half a two-kilometre promenade of cafés, fishing boats and ice cream. Beyond the riva and the beaches, the better Punat is up the stone lanes of the old core, where olive presses and carved lintels survive, and out on Košljun, the wooded islet in the middle of the bay where Franciscans have kept books, paintings and oddities since 1447. It is the practical town for Stara Baška (fish, bread, shops, pharmacy) and a good morning or evening out from Stara Baška or Vrbnik; families with small children like its shallow town beaches.
When to come: All year. Košljun opens daily except for short Sunday hours (April–October 09:30–17:00; winter to 15:00). Olive Days in October; harvest in late October. Beach life June–September.
Punat's fish market sells the local boats' catch every morning. Buy fish for dinner, pick up vegetables at the OPG Žagar stall and bread at the bakery on the way back to the car.
Tip: Our go-to for fresh fish. What is on the slab depends on that morning's catch; after a strong bura there can be little or nothing. If it is closed or sold out, go to the fish counter in Krk Town, which stays open until the day's catch is sold.
The islet the people of Punat call Mostir: a Franciscan friary (since 1447) in a holm-oak wood with about 400 plant species, four small museums and a church full of surprises. Inside the church of the Annunciation: Francesco Ughetto's huge 1653 canvas of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell over the altar; Girolamo da Santacroce's polyptych (1535), which paints the Frankopan donors as saints; the grave of Katarina Frankopan with its original slab at the entrance; and roof beams painted with Frankopan coats of arms. The sacred museum in the chapel of St Bernardine holds an 11th-century Hebrew scroll and a rare 12th-century crucifix. The ethnographic room has costumes, ship models, sopile pipes, cheese-making tools and the curiosities children remember, such as a one-eyed lamb and animals from as far away as Costa Rica. The library of about 30,000 volumes includes Ptolemy's 1511 Venice atlas.
Tip: Look up as you enter the church (the Frankopan arms on the beams) and down (Katarina's grave slab), then find the Glagolitic 'Mir i dobro' greeting at the monastery door. Walk the wooded path round the islet after the museums: it passes the forest chapels and Bruno Bulić's figure of St Francis taming the wolf on the shore. Keep quiet in the church.
Punat's quay is where the small-boat days start: the boat-only Wild Bays towards Stara Baška and Plavnik, the uninhabited island opposite, with its griffon vultures, a 'secret beach' and the Love Cave.
Tip: Couples: pick the small boat, not the 40–45-seat themed boats that stop at the same places around midday.
Olives are Punat's other story. Ride the traffic-free Olive Trail (KRK BIKE 443) through pastures and olive groves past Stari toš and St Donatus; taste oils in the Ulika grove above the bay; buy the island mill's own oil; and in autumn join the harvest or the Olive Days.
Tip: Come October–December to watch local families bring their olives to the mill.
Walk south from the riva along the sea to the naturist camp Konobe: always by the water, partly through olive groves and mostly in the shade of trees, so it works even in summer. On the way, at Mala Krasa, stand the remains of the Romanesque church of St George (four tall walls and an apse, on an older Roman site with graves). Carry on for the full coastal route to the Tranjevo lighthouse (1874) and the St Nicholas church at Cape Negrit, where the 45th parallel crosses the coast.
Tip: The Mala Krasa coves are the quiet swim on the way.
Climb from the seafront by the narrow paved lanes Stari Klanac, Veli dvor, Klančić or Kljepina to Vela Placa, the old square (a summer stage for theatre groups) with the little votive church of St Roch, built in 1855 against cholera. Above it are the oldest lanes (Guvnić, Stara Placa, Galija, Jagorika, Kolušin), where houses still have their vaulted ground floors for carts and oil, and builders carved Croatian and Latin inscriptions into lintels, thresholds and cisterns. On the way: the Stari toš olive press, now an interpretation centre, and Galerija Toš, an 1868 house whose ground-floor olive mill is now a gallery.
Tip: Read the doorways: dates and names are carved everywhere. GPS trap: Punat has its own Klančić, not Vrbnik's famous one.
A signposted path of fourteen stations climbs from the Stara Baška road to Tri križi, three crosses put up in 1898, with a view over Punat, the whole bay with Košljun and across to Krk Town.
Tip: Do it before dinner on the riva. Fit walkers can carry on over Veli vrh to Obzova, the island's highest peak, on the marked Shepherd's Story loop (KRK HIKE 143: 16.7 km, 630 m of climbing, rated difficult).
Walk the two-kilometre seafront from the marina past the fishing boats and the Angel park to the beaches, then eat on the front. The Angel park, with its white marble angel of 1930 in memory of Punat's First World War dead, won an award as the most beautiful park on the Adriatic in 2012 and is lit at night; it looks straight out at the boats, Prniba and Košljun.
A small cheese dairy and olive-oil shop on a residential street, where you can taste the cheeses before you buy: truffle, lavender and sage cheeses, a hard cheese for grating over pasta, and a strong, peppery oil.
Tip: Take the sage cheese for something different, and the hard cheese for the kitchen.
Tip: Reserve, and order the peka when you book.
Paid surface lots along Obala and by the harbour. Private lots at Medane: EUR 8/day (June 2025).
Trgovina Krk (Ivana Gorana Kovačića 83): Mon–Sat 08:00–21:00, Sun 08:00–13:00; the marina branch: Mon 07:00–14:00, Tue–Sat 07:00–20:00, Sun 07:00–13:00. Bakeries on Obala: Pekara Feral (daily 06:30–21:30 in season), Mlinar, Pekara Vrbnik. A small market square with OPG Žagar (Mon–Sat 07:00–15:00).
Pharmacy in the centre (call for its hours). Post office Jun–Sep Mon–Sat 07:30–21:00, Oct–May Mon–Fri 08:00–17:00, Sat 08:00–14:00. Several ATMs along Obala and at the marina. Tourist office at Pod topol 2: Mon–Fri 08:00–15:00, Sat 08:00–13:00 (2026).
Public toilets on the promenade charge EUR 0.50; free ones near the beaches at the south end. On Košljun there are free toilets with drinking water by the landing.
The museum entry on Košljun is paid in cash on the island. There is no café; drinking water is at the toilets by the landing.
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