Necujam Village

Like Maslinica, Nečujam is not in Split — it's a village on the northern coast of Šolta island, around nine miles across open water from the city, facing the largest bay on the island, itself made up of eight interlinked coves.

The name comes from the Latin Vallissurda, "the deaf bay" — a reference to how the bay's shape muffles sound, so that even loud noises are said to carry only as a whisper by the time they reach across the water. That quiet reportedly drew Croatia's most important Renaissance writer, Marko Marulić, often called the father of Croatian literature, to spend time here in the late 15th and early 16th centuries; the house where he stayed still stands in the centre of the village, and local tradition credits some of his writing to time spent on this part of Šolta.

Nečujam's own settlement history is comparatively recent by Dalmatian standards — it is generally described as the youngest of Šolta's villages, having grown up around weekend houses and a small tourist resort rather than an old fishing core. As of the 2011 census it had 171 residents. The sheltered, curved shape of the bay has long made it a natural anchorage, and the surrounding coves — pebble beaches backed by pine woods reaching almost to the waterline — are typical of Šolta's northern shore.

Because it sits so close to the city and offers calm, sheltered water without the crowds of some better-known stops further out, many gulet cruises from Split call in here as a short detour on the way to or from the rest of the Šolta coastline.