Komiza is located in a deep bay on the westem side of the island Vis below the 600 meter high mountain Rum. (1677 inhabitants according to the census from 200 I) lt is a typical Mediterranean village, which attracts the tourists with beautiful beaches and with narrow road~ and houses squeezed together around the harbour. Thanks to the mild Mediterranean climate, the stay in Komiža is pleasant also in the winter months. There are gravel beaches slang the whole east coast of the Bay of Komiža with sources of drinking water: Gusarica, Nova pošta, Velo zalo.
The name Komiza was mentioned for the first time in the second part of the 12th century. Komiza is a village where the fishing on the eastem side of the Adriatic Sea was bam. lts fishers not only ruled with their boats over the Adriatic Sea blit they also traded with the neighbouring coast creating fisherrnen's centres on the Pacific coasts of both Americas. Komiza has always been proud of the fisherrnan's history, whose remains can be found in the Fisherrnan's museum located in the old Venetian tower on the promenade (riva), the only Dne in Croatia. The traditional fishing tools are displayed in it. A copy of the Komiza fishing boat gajeta falkusa represented the Croatian maritime heritage at the world fair EXPO 1998 in Lisbon. A sacrifice host is bumed every year in front of the parish church of St. Nikola on December 6th during the celebration of St. Nikola, the patron of travellers, seamen and fisherrnan (which is also the day of Komiza).
The whole history of the island of Vis is on Dne band politically and economically connected to the fishing, and on the other band with the wine production, which today is also the basis ofeconomy and the pledge offuture. More than two thousand years passed since the first written laudation ofthe wine from Vis, and there are only few people who didn't hear about the wine vugava and plavac mali or didn't taste it. In the last years the agro tourism has been developed in 10 rural house-holds on Vis and Biševo. The local culinary specialities (domestic bread-komiška pogaca, dishes under the baking-lid, pilchards on the grill, beans and noodles on fish stew- brodetto) are offered together with domestic wine.