Mirca is a garden and an orchard. The houses range from cottages to high two-storey buildings with cobbled yards. Mirca is mainly turned towards the estates in the backround and it is only recently that it has stretched towards the sea near which in the past stood only the cemetery and the vineyards in Mutnik and Vele njive (The Big Fields). There is a new quay in the harbour of Gumanca, a modern olive-mill and many week-end cottages that have already reached as far as the pine-wood and entered some of the recently left vineyards.
Mirca is a quiet and tranquile place and popular etymology connects the noun mir (peace) with the name Mirca. Mirca is situated on the boundary between rural life and the tourist trade, with the wish to preserve both of them.
Mirca is the sentimental love of the greatest Croatian poet Tin Ujevic (1891-1955) who often used to stroll up these parts unveiling Mirca.
“ In the heart of a misery land and ungrateful stone, there is a moment of high and passionate domestic poetry, some fountain of beauty upon which one should stop and linger.
For this is the suburb of stillness where on footpaths mules and little donkeys appeared like some touchy vehicle.
Yes, it was needful to come here from stuffy over crowded Skadarlija, to have the Morning Star whitin the reach of our hands. There are so many stars here and they twinkle so discretly.
The peace enters me.”
[Tin Ujevic, Otkrivajuci MIrca (Unveiling Mirca), Jadranska posta, No. 299, in 1929]

Name. The name Mirca is derived from the Latin noun murus (wall). Its meaning probably points to the ancient buildings that later on where destroyed and scattered. In the Middle Ages, according to historical sources, the settlement was called Mirac (the little wall). Later on, like many other settlement on Brac, (which in the beginning, were not built close together and therefore had the appearance of plurality), it assumed the plural form of Mirca.

Monuments. The Berticevic and Brkovic families started raising the parish church in 1579. Mirca had at that time fifteen houses and seventy inhabitants. Enough to separate from Donji Humac and to unite with Sutivan. This former church, dedicated to Our Lady of Mirca, was enlarged in the second half of the 19th century with some baroque additions that we find in the majority of the churches on Brac.
In the church there is an altar painting Pieta, by the Brac painter F. Tironi from 1783 with the emphasized realizm of provincial apprehension.