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Travelling to Croatia

Welcome to Croatia — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:06:10 +0000

Why decide for travelling to Croatia? Thanks to its privileged position between the Dinaric Alps and the Adriatic sea, the relatively young nation of Croatia has been gaining a reputation for being one of Europe’s best kept secrets. The Balkan country has an excellent tourist infrastructure that serves more than 12 million visitors per year. Continue reading

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Biograd na Moru – the updated edition of Crvena Luka

Welcome to Croatia — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:56:37 +0000

The building worth twenty million is a modern tourist complex situated near Biograd na Moru which was started four years after Crvena Luka, another famous tourist resort was taken over from Modena by Octavia, an Italian company. The apartment blocks and old hotels in tourist resort surrounding the gorgeous bay will be demolished. The construction Continue reading

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Sinjska Alka, Traditional singing (ojkanje) and Traditional Souvenir (licitars) under UNESCO’s protection

Welcome to Croatia — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:48:18 +0000

Sinjska Alka – Traditional tournament Sinjska Alka is a 300 year old knights’ tournament in Sinj and honey making trade from region of northern Croatia have been added recently to UNESCO’s delegate list of non-material cultural heritage of mankind. Also, the musical expression called “ojkanje” was added to UNESCO list of rare immaterial cultural heritage Continue reading

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The flavors of Istria on CNN Traveler

Welcome to Croatia — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:26:44 +0000

The esteemed world magazine CNN Traveler has recently made Istria as one of the popular tourist destinations among its 1 million readers from around sixty countries by writing an article about this beautiful place. The story of biggest Croatian peninsula under the article name “The flavors of Istria” starts of the cove of printed edition Continue reading

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Croatian wines are popular in American market

Welcome to Croatia — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:15:34 +0000

Jeff Jenssen and Mike DeSimon, two popular reporters from most dominant American Wine Magazine have made a visit to Croatia recently, and they had to chance to visit most of popular that export their wines to US. Also they got familiar with important gastronomy destination in Istria, Dalmatia and Zagreb which could be suggested to Continue reading

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The Various towns of Kvarner riviera

Welcome to Croatia — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:32:23 +0000

Ičići Ičići is a lovely coastal town present in most gorgeous portions of Kvarner, where gentle slopes of Ucka descend towards sea. It grew among popular and gorgeous Lovran and Opatija. There is pleasant beach with clean waters in this coastal town where you can relax during summer. Lovran Lovran is a town with rich Continue reading

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Martinje – St.Martin’s Day in Croatia

Welcome to Croatia — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:30:37 +0000

On 11th November, as per the Catholic calendar St. Martin’s Day is celebrated. In Croatia this day is called Martinje and is a wine holiday. With the festival it gives a chance to the people to celebrate. The winegrowers on this day along with their friends thank St. Martin for young wine and a good Continue reading

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The Exotic Kvarner Riveria in Croatia

Welcome to Croatia — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:58:16 +0000

Kvarner is a region that has been growing tourism for more than a decade due to its diversity ranging from colorful vegetation, pleasant climatic conditions, combination of mountains, islands and coastal area and splendid architecture and amazing culture. It was a winter and summer resort of members of Habsburg dynasty, that developed the amazing tourist Continue reading

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The valley of Neretva – An amazing place for tourists to enjoy mandarin harvest

Welcome to Croatia — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:46:57 +0000

Dolina Neretve (Neretva Valley, valley of river Neretva), which is also called ‘mandarin valley’ is the best place to enjoy your holidays in Croatia and you will receive a warm welcome from hospitable locals of Komin, Opuzen, Metkovic and other areas. In whole region of Neretva, there are approximately 1.3 million mandarin seedlings that yield Continue reading

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Croatia UNESCO – 7 sites and 7 cultural traditions

Welcome to Croatia — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:24:40 +0000

CROATIA has 7 UNESCO protected world cultural heritage sites and 7 UNESCO protected world cultural heritage traditions, making it first in Europe and fourth in the world. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The music in the video are traditional and unique Croatian “klapa” songs. First is “Vilo Moja” and second Continue reading

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