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Tucepi Marina has 70 berths in the sea. TUCEPI, a town in the littoral region of Makar-ska, 4 km southeast of Makarska. Chief occupations are farming and tourism. Situated on the main road (M2, E65). The town's marina is protected by the outer breakwater from the winds, and the utilizable part of the coast is 40 m long. The first settlement dates back to the ancient per-iod. Fragments of furniture from an early Christian church of the 5th and the 6th centuries were excavated on the graveyard as well as several mediaeval tombstones. The present name of the town was first mentioned in 1434. The church of St. George was built at the end of the 13th century, distinguished by a mixed Romanesque and Gothic style.  The 18th-century noble families of Ivanisevic and Lucic-Pavlovic from Makarska had Baroque villas built by the sea; the summer mansion of the abbot Grubisic is today Hotel Kastelet. - The small Renaissance church of St. Michael and the church of St. Catherine can be visited in the hamlet of Pasalici.
Nowadays the villaee of Tucepi is recognized as a popular tourist destination in the guidebooks of modern Croatian and European travellers. However, thanks to its favourable geographical position, Tucepi has been a settlement for four thousand vears. To the west its boundaries touch the town of Makarska, the only urban centre of the area called the Makarsko primorje in Croatian i.e. the Makarska Coastland. or popularly the Makarska Riviera. The imposine mountain of Biokovo represents the northern border of the village.
The hamlets of Tucepi: Podpec. Covici, Srida sela, Simici and Podstup, built in traditional Mediterranean style, are spread over a large area of coastal limestone slopes.Rich in natural water springs, the area abounds withterraced eardens, vineyards and olive-groves. The modern village of Tucepi, situated in the south of the area. along the four kilometres of mild, cultivated pebbly shore, seeks its prosperity in tourism. The very name of the place witnesses its long history tracing back to the Prehistoric period (Illyrians, 2000 BC - 1st cent. AD).
 One of the hypotheses concernine the Illyrian origin and the meaning of the toponym is based on the preserved Old Illyrian elements in the Albanian language which would mean "a village at the
source". Both, the toponyms and the archaeological finds point to the conclusion that the village was inhabited in Illyrian times: the hillforts in dry-wall construction with the typical tumuli (ancient burial mounds) on their tops. All the names the inhabitants gave to these hillforts would mean the same: a site where a buildine stood. So vou will find Gradine (on the slopes of the hill Sutvid), Gomile (on the localities of Sutvid and Ravnice). Gradac (not far from the sea shore), and Grad (above the road leading from Srida sela to Podpeci.
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