About the village

A village on the border of two worlds

Krković is a small settlement on the border of the Šibenik-Knin and Zadar counties, between the towns of Skradin and Vodice. The village has belonged to the Town of Skradin for centuries and dates back to the Middle Ages — the first written mention appears in the name of an estate in 1463. The village name preserves a family name that has since disappeared, but lives on in the name of the place.

Traces of life here reach much deeper into the past: remains of a Neolithic settlement were found at the Vrbica site, and an early Croatian necropolis with some 130 graves bears witness to early medieval life.

The Old and the New Village

In the 1970s the residents gradually left their old stone homes in the Old Village and settled on the plateau along the main road. Today we therefore distinguish the Old Village, with its preserved traditional architecture of the Dalmatian hinterland, and the New Village along the D59 state road.

All Saints church

The parish church of All Saints dates back to the 15th century. It was thoroughly renovated in 1989, only to be mined and razed to the ground in the Homeland War in 1992. After the war it was rebuilt and remains the spiritual centre of the village.

Krković today

The village lives off agriculture — olive groves and vineyards dominate the Krković field — and its potential for rural tourism is increasingly recognised. A curiosity: actor Goran Višnjić spent a good part of his childhood in Krković with his grandparents.