Villa Laurel is located in Šibenik-Knik county. Only 2.5 km away is beautiful national Park Krka. The national park is a vast and primarily unaltered area of exceptional natural value, including one or more preserved or insignificantly altered ecosystems. 

Including the submerged part of the river at the mouth, the Krka River is 72.5 km long, making it the 22nd longest river in Croatia. It springs in the foothills of the Dinara mountain range, 2.5 km northeast of Knin. With its seven waterfalls and a total drop in altitude of 242 m, the Krka is a natural and karst phenomenon. 

2.5 km away is beautiful pebble beach, and city Šibenik is only 20 km away.

Šibenik is the oldest Croatian self-proclaimed town on the Adriatic, the capital and cultural, educational, administrative and economic center of the Sibenik-Knin County.

It is mentioned for the first time on Christmas 1066 in the document of King Petar Krešimir IV, and is also called the Krešimir`s town. Until the epidemic of plague in the mid-17th century it was the largest town on the entire eastern Adriatic coast.

Among the Croatian towns it stands out with its unique position in the central part of the Adriatic, in a picturesque and spacious bay on the sunken mouth of the river Krka.