The Pelješac Captains Festival is dedicated to the seafaring tradition and it is an excellent way to open the summer season.

Orebić used to be the maritime centre of the Mediterranean; apart from Piraeus and Hamburg, it was the only city ships greeted with sirens. The locals would respond by waving sheets from the coast, sounding the bells from the Franciscan Monastery of our Lady of Angels and by firing from the cannon from today’s building of the Maritime Museum in Orebić.