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Lubenice
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Lubenice
Total population
12
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Overview
Lubenice, historically known as Ljubenice or Zubjenice, is an ancient fortified settlement on the Croatian island of Cres. It sits on a ridge 380 m-high (1,250 ft) above the Adriatic Sea and may have been inhabited as early as 4,000 years ago. Today, Lubenice is a small local centre with around forty buildings and only six permanent residents. Most of its structures are built from the same stone as the surrounding cliffs. Part of the settlement dates back to the Roman period. The town was once walled, although very little remains of the walls apart from two gates and some of the eastern portion. There are 9 churches in the town; an unusually high number for its population, explained in part by the relative financial independence of the town in the late medieval period. Today, it is almost a ghost town for most of the year, but in the summer it is a prominent tourist destination for its beaches, cliffs and proximity to Lake Vrana.
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History
Lubenice was an independent commune until the Venetian government subjected it to the town of Cres in 1484, ten years before the same was done to Beli. In 2023, a camp with a capacity of 200 beds was planned south of Lubenice to help slow the population decline. The nearest existing camps are in Valun (1060 beds) and Martinšćica (7050 beds).
Geography
Lubenice is located on a part of the island known as Gerbin, a peninsula that also includes Zbičina, Valun and Pernat. There are two land-accessible pebble beaches nearby: Sveti Ivan ("Luka") and Žanja, although the latter requires descending a narrow switchback trail. These are usually ranked among the best on Cres. There are also several such beaches only accessible from the sea or by relatively dangerous paths (Miračine, a different Luka, Skopji bok a.k.a. Nedjelja, Karjotul, Prašćarići, Vrutek) There are a total of 6 larger entrances along with a number of smaller entrances, some partly or completely submerged. The total volume of the cave is . The cave was once larger, but coastal erosion has led to the loss of space at the entrance, with an orientation particularly vulnerable to the large waves of the sirocco. It formed in Pleistocene breccia in the zone of freshwater-saltwater mixing. Seasonal freshwater springs within the cave have a marked influence on the temperature of the water inside. Its largest chamber is 27×24 m. On 7 October 2007 it was explored by the Speleološki klub "Samobor" and the Inštituta za raziskovanje krasa (Postojna), who produced a topographic map of the cave and conducted geomorphological and hydrochemical analyses. It was the first flank margin cave to be described along the Adriatic Sea. It is thought to have formed during the MIS 5e highstand, unrelated to the hydrology of Lake Vrana. Several smaller caves and rock shelters have formed in the same breccia near the cave. The cave's formation was the main subject of a detailed 2010 study. Nearby () at elevation is the large cave Morska peć, with constant drippage of water, for the collection of which a well has been constructed. Other caves in the Lubenice area include Grancina…
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