Municipal town has about 4000 residents, and can reach it and the main island road from Smokvice through the forests in the middle of the island. The resort is built in an amphitheater on several hills around the central valley. It provides a long avenue of lime trees called Zlinje situated next to a recently built public buildings: schools, hotels, banks, shops, municipal, Chamber zctravlja etc.
In the old center, south of Zlinje on a large paved square is the parish church of All Saints. The documents referred to in the early Middle Ages, but later it was reconstructed several times, and its current appearance with the bell tower dating from the 17th - 18 century, the Baroque period. Feast of St. Vicenza is on 28 April, and this is the day the municipality Blato. A large procession goes around the city and on the square before the church is performed ceremonial Kumpanija. The town and surrounding a large number of small churches and chapels. The oldest is St.. Cosmas and Damian from the 6th century (early Christian), then Sv. Mary of the Fields, St. Martin et al
With the new Blato has many old houses with paved yards, trellis work and farm buildings. And here was the castle of Korcula nobility, and highlights the baroque mansion castle in the midst of America. It is designed to accommodate regional museum with collections of archeology, history, ethnography. The inhabitants of Blato used the most were farmers and craftsmen, nowadays more tourism. It was actively Knightly Association Kumpanija the eponymous sword play cherishes folklore, song and other cultural and performing society Petar Milat nurtures music and folklore, and there are also harmony singing groups, brass bands and
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