Sveti Andrija
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| Waters | the Adrian Sea | |
| Archipelago | Elaphites | |
| Geographical location | 42 ° 38 ′ N , 17 ° 57 ′ E | |
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| length | 475 km | |
| width | 130 km | |
| surface | 3.6 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 57 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Sveti Andrija (Italian Donzella) is an uninhabited Croatian island in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County and part of the Elaphites . It is about 11 km away from the city of Dubrovnik .
geography
The island's coast consists mainly of bare rock . The western part of the island is characterized by dense coniferous forests , the rest of various other hardwood plants .
history
On Sveti Andrija, the island of the Elaphites furthest towards the open sea, there are the remains of a Benedictine monastery, which was officially abandoned around 1799, but presumably had been abandoned before that, and a lighthouse that was built in 1873 and has since been rebuilt several times. Sveti Andrija also served as a quarantine station for plague sufferers at the beginning of the 15th century, and the Benedictine monk and poet Mavro Vetranovič (1482–1576) lived here as a hermit around the middle of the 16th century .