Village Kampor is located
on the NW side of the island and streches from one bay accross the field
to another one near monastery. Kampor is a quiet and family friendly area
(car an advantage due to avarage local transport). In the vicinity there
are several restaurants.
Village has ambulance, restaurant,
pizzeria's, shop, diving centre.
The place derives its name
from latin 'campus' meaning field. Kampor is, as a village, relatively
big in the island's criterion as it is spread on a bigger area. The
Kampor area consist of a Forest/
Nature park Kalifront ( where you can come across a dear or buck, if
you are lucky), a tourist village in woody Suha Punta, a long shallow
sandy beach in the Kampor bay next to the old village, a fertile valley
and the area around St. Eufemia bay with the franciscan monastery.
Kampor used to be a traditional
fisherman's and peasants village before it got developed through tourism.
Today it is popular
place with tourist that like nature and with divers.
ST.
EUFEMIA FRANCISCAN MONASTERY
Actually, this is St. Bernardin
monastery but got known after the small chapel of St. Eufemia and therefore
often reffered to under that name. The monastery was founded by franciscans
in 1444 and a donation from a local patrician. The St. Bernardine church
has beautiful altars and a polypthyh alterpieces of Vivarini brothers,
then
a wonderful wooden ceiling,
decorated with sacral motives - the tabulatum.
This polyptich of the Vivarini
brothers workshop and byzantine icona of the Madona with the child are
of the particular artistic and historical value.
There is also the ethnographic
museum and the art gallery of Fra Ambroz testen.
The franciscan library safeguards
valuable medieval manuscripts and the Rab Chronicle transcribed and completed
by Fra Odoriko Badurina.
Attractions:
- St.Eufemia monastery with
fra Ambrosius Testen gallery and a small Ethnological and sacral
collection.
- Kalifront
forest
- Remembrance cemetery for
the victims of fascism in 2.nd world war
Accommodation facilities:
tourist village Suha Punta, private
accommodation
Restaurants:
- Bujol, pizzeria Victoria,
Skipper, Eufemia.
We recommend Restaurant
Eufemia.
Beaches
in area:
- shallow sandy beach 'Mel'
in Kamporska Draga
- shallow bay 'Miral'
- Suha Punta and Dundovo
bays ( rocky, ideal for naturists and snorkelling)