TISNO, a town on the eastern coast of the island of Murter, partly spreading on the mainland. It developed on the mainland and the island, on the narrowest part of the Murter Channel in the Straits of Murter (38 m), with a bridge spanning over it.

A picturesque town with a typical coastal scenery, nice beaches and well-maintained coast. Organized tourism emerged in the 1930s. Today Tisno offers a variety of accommodation capacities in its hotels, apartments, a campsite, as well as exquisite domestic cuisine - fish food, domestic wines tasted with cookies. The main recreation in Tisno as well as on the whole island of Murter is yachting, diving and other water sports.

The traditional event, the Summer in Tisno (Tisnjansko Lito), is organized in the summer season. Religious festivities take place on the day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (26th of May) and St. Martin (11th of November).

The drawbridge connecting the island of Murter with the mainland, situated in the centre of Tisno, is open during the tourist season every day from 9 to 9:30 a.m. and from 5 to 5:30 p.m.

First mentioned in 1474. The parish church of 1548 was reconstructed in Baroque style in 1640, and annexed in 1840; the belfry was built by the local builders between 1680 and 1684. Other churches date back to the 17th century. A mediaeval church of St. Martin is in Ivinje, a hamlet on the mainland.