A part of the appeal of the Plitvice Lakes, one of the most beautiful natural attractions in Europe, can be explained by the fact that their appearance keeps changing. We are not talking about all that water from rivers and streams that perpetually fills the lakes until freezing winter, when the entire landscape becomes covered […]
MoreA SMALL KVARNER ISLAND REACHED WORLD FAME ALMOST NINETY YEARS AGO
Did Edward and Wallis have Rab cake?
In the summer of 1936, wrote Linda Cookson in British “The Independent”, a little known Island of Rab, located in the lustrous Kvarner Bay, got its fifteen minutes of fame. That is when Britain’s new King Edward VIII took his mistress and future wife Wallis Simpson on a cruise of the Mediterranean and the Adriatic […]
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The group of emperors guards Zadar’s gold and silver
There are few people who have not heard of Zadar’s Permanent Exhibition of Ecclesiastic Art in the Benedictine Convent of St. Mary in Zadar, also known as “Gold and Silver of Zadar”, almost as valuable St. Francis’ Monastery’s collection or newly opened and fully restored Treasury of the Serbian Orthodox Church of St Elias the […]
MoreZADAR COUNTY HAS A DIVERSE HINTERLAND POTENTIAL, VERY INTERESTING TO NEW GENERATIONS OF TOURISTS
Zrmanja and Velebit attract adventure tourists
As elsewhere in Dalmatia, Zadar and parts of the surrounding area have run different degrees of successful tourist businesses for decades, leaning exclusively on the area’s main resources: the sea, long coast with its many islands and large number of warm, sunny days.
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Blaca Hermitage – a stone gem
It is nothing short of a miracle that residents of the Blaca Hermitage fought and conquered wild nature and the island’s barren land, surviving in such circumstances for whole four centuries.
MoreA PRE-ROMANESQUE OLD CROATIAN CHURCH WAS BUILT BASED ON VERY PRECISE ASTRONOMICAL MEASURES
The Sun and Light Festival
An incredible blend of the three thousand years old town of Nin’s rich culture and history offers many reasons to visit this place;
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