Vela draga is the place where European and African tectonic plates meet.
It is the canyon formed by deposition of horizontal layers of limestone, elevation and cracking, followed by gradual, long-lasting erosion and chipping off. Result are stunning vertical rocky towers up to of 100 meters high. These towers attract alpinists for the last eighty years as a popular Alpine climb, especially the largest, Veliki toranj (famous alpinist Emilio Comici created the first alpine route on the Big Tower or Comici edge in 1931). Nowadays offers sixty mapped climbing routes.
