Farming, olive-growing, viniculture, fruit-growing, tobacco, herbs
(sage, laurel, woodworm), fishing and tourism are the villages chief
occupations. Slano lies on the main road (M2, E65). Yachts can anchor in
the small protected Banja cove. Anchoring-ground for larger yachts lies
off the entrance in the cove, to the southwest of Cape Gornji.
The
area of Slano was populated already in the prehistoric period (ruins of
a hill-fort and tumuli on the nearby hills) and in the ancient times (a
Roman castrum on the hill Gradina; early Christian sarcophagi, today
exhibited in front of the Franciscan church).In 1399 Slano fell under
the rule of the Republic of Ragusa; once the duke's seat (duke's palace,
reconstructed at the end of the 19th c.). The summer villa of the
Ohmu?evi? family is situated in the vicinity.
The present
Franciscan church was built in the 16th century; the main altar is
adorned with a polyptych by Lovro Dobri?evi?. The parish church of Saint
Blaise from 1407 was reconstructed in the Baroque period. The churches
of the Annunciation and of St. Peter, both dating back to the 13th
century and are located in Banja
