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Golden Horn Beach
White-pebble spit whose tip rotates with the wind, edged by pine forest and clear Adriatic shallows.
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This guide to Golden Horn Beach near Split starts with the two Adriatic currents that collide at its tip and never let the white-pebble spit hold one shape for long. It follows oceanographer Ivica Vilibic of Croatia's Ruder Boskovic Institute, who set out to answer the question tourists kept asking him about why the point seems to shift, and traces how the maestral wind and the southeasterly jugo push the tip in opposite directions. Along the way it turns to an old name for the place, Dugi Rat, and the Roman villa hidden in the pine grove behind the beach.
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