Tunel Pitve-Zavala, na otoku Hvaru, povezuje mjesto Pitve, u središtu otoka, sa Zavalom i još nekoliko naselja na južnoj strani otoka.
Tunel je donedavno bio jedina veza između naselja na južnoj strani otoka (Zavala, Ivan Dolac, Jagodna, Sveta Nedjelja) i Jelse. Nedavno je prokopana makadamska cesta koja spaja Sv. Nedilju sa uvalom Dubovica i gradom Hvarom, ali još nije asfaltirana, pa je tunel i dalje vrlo važan.
Tunel je dugačak 1400 metara, nije asfaltiran i nema svjetla, a širok je dovoljno tek za jednosmjerni promet, pa se smjer prometovanja regulira semaforima na ulazima u tunel.
Adrenalin passage through unique unilluminated tunnel, which was excavated in 1962 on Croatian island Hvar.
Tunnel Pitve-Zavala is one way tunnel linking northern and southern part of the Hvar island.
Length of the tunnel is 1,400 metres, height is 2.70 m, width is 2.20 m. Traffic in the tunnel is controlled by traffic lights / 1min green and 6min red / they were installed there relatively recently in 1976. Tunnel is named after village Pitve on northern side and after village
Zavala on southern part of the island. The original purpose of tunnel was to supply water because there wasn´t any, expect of rain water. This is the reason for rough excavation.
Today water is delivered by undersea waterpipe from land. In rainy weather you can see water leaking into tunnel and you drive like through a lake full of water.
18 сен 2024
