Hotels history

At the Makarska Marineta (small coast), at the place where two stone Dalmatian houses were situated up to the 19th century, a palace of the Family Kacic-Peko was constructed in the Romantic forms of a fortified castle.

It has trifore of the Renaissance fence and a semi-circular staircase with a cement New-Renaissance fountain and a small park fenced in with a steel fence with cement New-Rococo vases at the gates. It was obviously constructed on the model of other buildings at the Adriatic coast, as a rural fortified palace, made of bricks, mortar and cement.

The Family Kacic came from the Makarska upper region, from the place called Gradac to Makarska, at the end of the eighteenth century. Dr. Antun noble Kacic-Peko (1835-1917) stems also from that family, and he practiced law in Makarska since 1891.

A part of the small coast called Marineta prior to the construction of the palace Kacic-Peko about the year 1800

At the turn of the 19th century, Dr. A. Kacic-Peko built a representative palace at the small coast, and he fixed the family coats of arms to the south facade.

The town library was situated in this building. The books written by Vjekoslav Pavišic were supposedly brought to that library around the year 1910. In 1916, the Library of the Town of Makarska was opened therein and the ownership of the building was transferred on the town. The Library was situated therein up to the end of the Second World War. During the following ten years, it was the headquarters of different ruling authorities so that its name “the old committee” is being used even nowadays.

In the year 1979, the office of the Museum moved temporarily to that building and the Town Library was being operated operating therein for a couple of years as well. For some time, the Makarska amateur painters were actively working on the ground floor, and after that we had there catering services and on the upper floor the offices of a hotel company etc.

The palace of the Family Kacic-Peko, before the year 1904 and in 1937

The coats of arms of the family Kacic-Peko on the south facade of the building and the chimney that was brought to the Museum of the Town of Makarska on 13 February, 2002