The City of Korcula is the tourist, economic and cultural center of the island of the same name. It is one of the best-preserved medieval cities in the Mediterranean.

The city is situated at the traffic intersection of the island, and it has been attracting travelers and colonists of all times. The old medieval part of the city was built on a small oval peninsula, a Baroque suburb spreads under the old city walls, and newer town quarters stretch along the shore to the east and west of the old centre. Today the city has about 3,000 inhabitants, most of them living in new parts of the city. Korcula is the seat of the administration of the Town of Korcula that includes the city, part of the island and four villages: Zrnovo, Pupnat, Cara and Racisce , with a total of about 6,000 inhabitants.

Korcula has many social, cultural, economic and health institutions and organizations: a kindergarten, elementary and secondary school (grammar school), museum, library, medical centre, tourist agencies, banks, pharmacy, hotels, shipyard, shops, restaurants and so on. It also has cultural and performing societies that foster choral singing and folk dancing, and sports societies.

The Statute of Korcula, one of the oldest legal documents in this part of Europe, was adopted in the year 1214. In the same century, Marco Polo (1254 - 1324), the legendary traveller and globetrotter, explorer of the Far East, skilled merchant and diplomat at the court of Kublai-Khan was born in Korcula, in the year 1254. His birth house still stands in Korcula. Beside the remainders of the Romanic style, the dominant in the architecture of Korcula are the Gothic and Renaissance styles applied in the final phase of construction of the city walls and towers.

The sites worth seeing in Korcula are the City Museum, Treasury of the Abbots, collection of icons, picture galleries and old church buildings where the priceless works of art made by famous masters, from Leonardo da Vinci to Jacoppo Tintoretto, are kept safe. The impression with Korcula could not be complete without mentioning the old play of knights called Moreska, the spectacular combat dance with swords.