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KOLAN

Kolan is one of the oldest villages on Pag island.

Positioned not on the coast, but inside the island, above the fertile valley (Kolanjsko polje), it homed mostly peasants and shepherds.

A cemetery with a chapel, in the same place where today is church in Kolan, existed at least since XV ct.

In the walley are good wells of water, which, by means of small aqueduct, once provided the water for ancient Kissa. (caska).

In the fields below Kolan it is still possible to see remainings of the lignite coal-mine.

There were lots of open mining-places, in the village memory it is remembered that at the time of Napoleon occupation there was an unbroken line of mules from the mine to the Rogoza bay, where the coal was embarked. At the end of XIX ct., German (or Austro-Hungarian, the name of one of them was Gustav Hermann) ingenieurs who worked previously in Suez, came to Kolan and organised a coal-mining company. They built a narrow-track railway accross the fields and hills for the coal transport to the near-by small port Simuni. In Simuni there is a deep fiord ('Gaz'), and bigger ships can enter it then the Rogoza bay. Today there is an ACI marina.Simuni

Rests of the Kolan-Simuni line are still visible: the embankment and two bridges, one ruined and second complete.

Kolanjsko blato

Potaknuti �eljom za o�uvanjem biolo�ke raznolikosti u za�ti�enom mo�varnom, ornitolo�kom rezervatu,

Wetland on the Pag island (location Blato near Gajac, in the fields under the village Kolan).

"Blato" is important location for migrating birds. There exists a program by Croatian government for establishing the protected area. This location surely deserves it.

Caska uništena u potresu.