On the very source of River Gacka, at the Tonković Vrilo, stands one of the best restaurants in Lika, Vrilo Gacke. Apart from the setting itself, situated in beautiful surrounding of Gacka springs, small wooden bridges and mills. We arrived in the restaurant in late summer morning. Heat was taking its toll and sip of homemade plum rakija (brandy) was more than welcomed. The locals tend to believe that good rakija makes you warm in winter and cold in summer, and this one was t

The river Gacka and its valley cannot be envisaged without the mills on it. First mills in history are mentioned to be on the river in place of Švica, where Gacka sinks into the Švica lake. These mills very indeed important and the noble family of Frankopan used to give its products as a well-earned gift to the faraway monasteries. People from the far came to the mills in times of drought, for miller to mill their wheat. The life centred on these properties, and one can even