Thanks to its position, Jakša palace, Jakinovi dvori, closes the Vis settlement Kut on its eastern wing whilst a large square opens out in the front of it.
This palace was built at the beginning of the 17th century as a long, one-storey building with two wings that closed in around a huge courtyard. On the ground floor there used to be a tavern whilst on the first floor there is a central hall that exits to a narrow balcony supported by consoles. The way out to the balcony is through the four doors whose semicircular arches reach the roof framing thus giving the palace façade a very thin appearance that looks like a four-mullioned window.
The inner courtyard is entered through the main entrance from the square but also from the sea side where there is a smaller dock and where stone mooring rings are visible.
Above the main entrance and above the transom, is the relief baroque coat of arms of the Jakša family. A passage leading from the entrance to the courtyard is vaulted and here is a smaller stone basin.
The courtyard has significantly changed due to later division as well as the house façade and interior. On the northern and eastern wings are gardens fenced with stone walls.
This palace, as a double-wing storey with its storerooms, stores, courtyard, seaport and outer towers represents a type of efficient fortified coastal countryside house, equipped not only with fishing and agricultural tools but inside having original furniture, numerous paintings and items of high art.
There were numerous public notaries, mayors and writers in the Jakša family. They were members of the Vis and Split nobility who never alienated themselves but who always had an expressed national consciousness being leaders of the Croatian People’s Party at the end of the 19th century.
