The Municipality of Baška Voda is territorially situated between Brela and the Town of Makarska. It is bordered by the Biokovo Mountain in the north and the sea in the south. At the coast it also includes a complex of beach resorts Baško Polje and Djecje selo as well as the settlements of Promajna, Bratuš and Krvavica. The hamlet of Topići and settlement of Bast are located on steep Biokovo slopes, at the end of a vast field where pine trees and olives are grown. There were 2,924 inhabitants registered in this region in 2001, of which 2,045 in Baška Voda, 136 in Bast, 284 in Krvavica and 456 in Promajna. Baška Voda was inhabited in the ancient world; archaeological remains on a hillock Gradina and recently found remains of the walls of an antique under-sea harbour testify about that. The name of Baška Voda, which used to be a settlement of farm labourers, fishermen and sailors, was for the first mentioned in the recent history in 1724 at the end of Italian-Croatian charter on the legacy of Staničić brothers from Bast. According to the historian Father Karlo Jurišić, colonization of Baška Voda by its inhabitants probably began after 1684, after the final banishment of the Turks from the Makarska Littoral. The new settlement of Baška Voda inhabitants was named after a water spring that ran through the place. There is an old farm-housing complex in the town centre preserved from that period. Baroque St. Lovro’s church was built in 1750 on the foundations of an antique structure. At the end of the 19th century St. Nicholas’s church, a patron saint of fishermen and sailors, was erected. Recently, a church-tower and a parish house have been built next to the church. Tourism began developing in Baška Voda after the First World War, and the town has been rapidly developing since an earthquake in 1962. Baška Voda got its final form after the construction of a breakwater and a marina appropriate to anchor both boats and yachts. East of Baška Voda is Promajna, which used to be a small settlement of fishermen and farm labourers, and today a tourist town whose offer is dominated by private accommodation, villas and small hotels. Bratuš is a picturesque fishermen settlement with preserved traditional architecture and a wonderful beach. A natural stone monument of exceptional beauty rises above the old part, Krvavica. A valuable complex of coastal architecture has been particularly well preserved in Bast, a settlement on steep Biokovo slopes. The name of Bast comes from the name of the antique town Biston, and it was mentioned in its present form for the first time in 1434 in Kreševska charter, by which the leaders of Bosnian tribes under Juraj Vojsalić “and the village of Bast” return to their old rulers. Among the numerous medieval monuments there is an interesting standing tombstone at the Grebišće site and tombstones from the 14th and 15th century around the parish church of the Assumption. That church was built in 1763 on the foundations of an older church that is mentioned from the period before the arrival of the Turks. The oldest preserved structure in Bast is St. Rocco’s church from the 15th century. Chapels of St. Ilija and St. Nicholas from the beginning of the 20th century are also preserved. Taverns with traditional rustic specialties are particularly interesting part of the tourist offer of Bast. One of the most difficult and most dangerous climbs of Biokovo starts from Bast.