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Sveti Filip i Jakov, situated near Biograd na Moru, offers a multitude of accommodation capacities (hotels, tourist resort), fine beaches, clear sea, nice walks, sports and recreation opportunities (tennis, yachting), many restaurants; it has been visited by many tourists since the 1960s; the Tourist Society was established in 1955.

Traditional entertainment includes the Filipljansko Summer (first half of August), when numerous cultural events and shows are organized. The most celebrated religious feast is the Day of St. Roch (16th of August). Boaters will be drawn by the vicinity of the attractive Kornati Archipelago, the destination of organized excursions.

Tourist Resort Croatia is in the immediate vicinity of the sea; it disposes of modern apartments, a restaurant with a terrace and tennis courts. Campsite Dardin has an attractive beach.

SVETI FILIP I JAKOV, a small town on the coast of the Pasman Channel, 3 km northwest of Biograd na Moru; population 1,645. Chief occupations include farming, viniculture, vegetable growing and tourism. Sveti Filip i Jakov lies on the regional road (M2, E65).

In the period before the Turkish raids, the town was a harbour of the Benedictine monastery in Rogov, the ruins of which, with the preserved early Romanesque church of St. Roch (St. Rocco) stand to the northeast of the town. The present town was founded after the Turks had withdrawn in the 17th and the 18th centuries. The 18th-century church of St. Michael is a reconstructed Gothic structure, from which the inscription and the coat of arms of the Rogov abbot Petar Zadranin (second half of the 14th c.) originate. The church has a monumental wooden crucifix dating back to the end of the 14th century.