Nerezisca is a picturesque village almost in the very heart of the island. It is famous for the manufacturing of essential (aromatic) lavender and sage oils. Local restaurants offer home-made specialities.
 

NEREZISCA (Nerezisce), a village in the interior of the island of Brac, 10 km south of Supetar; elevation 382 m; population 700. Chief occupations are farming and viticulture. Nerezisca is located at the intersection of the regional road and local roads; starting point for ascents to Vidova Gora (778 m).
 

Until the end of the 18th century, Nerezisca was the administrative centre of the island. The early Christian church of St. Tudor, west of the village, was reconstructed in the 12th-13th century. In the vicinity are also the churches of St. George and St. Nicholas, from the transitional Romanesque-Gothic period. the village also features the Gothic churches of St. Marguerite and St. Peter. The church of St. Peter has a stone relief of the Blessed Virgin with saints, a work by Nikola Lazanovic from 1578. Among residential structures, preserved are the Gothic house Garafulic and the Renaissance palace Harasic. On the square, next to the parish church, is a relief of the Venetian lion with an inscription from 1545 and a spear post with a lion and chiselled coats of arms. The parish church was mentioned in the 13th century; it was reconstructed in 1583; another reconstruction started in the 18th century. In 1746, Ivan Macanovic attached a new, monumental bell tower to it. The church features a large Renaissance wooden altar, the late Renaissance altarpiece by Carlo Ridolfi (first half of the 17th c.), several Baroque paintings and the organ by Petar Nakic from 1753.