Tisno is the youngest town on the island. It has1430 inhabitants and it is situated at the point where the island of Murter almost touches the land with which it was connected by a bascule bridge in 1832. The new part of town was built on land and named Gomilica. The town is known for its spacious shops, green vegetation and long quay. The land part of Tisno is growing fast in recent times. Many summerhouses, suites, restaurants and small family hotels were built there. The centre of the old town is on the island. Southeast from the bascule bridge and behind the last houses and the church of Sv. Andrija lays a rocky beach. A wood shelters this beach and 1000 meters long promenade stretches alongside it. Tisno became an important religious centre owing to great votive pilgrimage of Our Lady of Karavaj. Nowadays, inhabitants of Tisno live from farming, fishing and crafts but the most important branch of economy is tourism, which finally returned to central Dalmatia .