Architecture

The island has only one settlement, which can be split into two villages: upper and lower one. The older upper one is located on a hill above the sandy bay called Spiaza. The newer lower village lays along the western coast of the same bay.

Centuries ago the first houses were constructed using reed and mud and were covered with reed and straw. Later people started using stone, which is the main material from which most of the houses of the island are built. More modern materials such as bricks are used only in a few buildings built in recent hundred years (during the Austro-Hungarian empire).

Most of the houses built in the oldest part of the village around the church were build in fact atop of ruins of older houses. It’s not uncommon to find human bones if you dig close to church. A few hundred years ago the first cemetery was located in that area.

Today the she Susak village counts around 700 houses, from which most of them were soled to become summer residences.

Nowadays old houses and the original island architecture is faces big problems. The laws which should protect these houses from being turned into white uniformed bricks is not enforced. So now you can see a lot of bat taste in action: white facades, concrete balconies decorated by porcelain or plastic garden dwarfs and all sorts of animals!