new(er) Zadar rising
by picek
Well, Zadar is lot more than its historic peninsula. Actually, that is only its smaller part, yet the place of interest of most people who'll ever visit. Beside beaches in vicinity.
Once you'll get a bit into 'everyday' Zadar, there's whole different picture. Like industrial zones. Sport centre Višnjik. Parking places for yachts and boats. Scars from latest wars. Shopping malls. Cafes in socialist-style blocks. Dead end streets and wide main ones. Traffic and local markets. Mix of everything. Post-modernity and transition and post WWII life. For all what is positive and negative about it. Kinda symphaetic mixture because of its inhabitants. Yes, they are the soul of the city.
Crkva Svetog Šimuna
by croisbeauty
Although it looks like thounands of other churches, the Church of St. Simon is very important one because it houses St. Simon's casket with the saint body and is the most valuable sample of the medieval Croatian goldsmith workmanship.
Monument to Spiridon Brusina
by croisbeauty
Spiridon Brusina (1845-1908), born in Zadar, was a great Croatian zoologist and palaeontologist, wide world known. He was in particularly interested in the study of marine and fresh-water molluscs, the snails and shells of coastal Croatia. By the end of his life he had compiled the most complete collection of Adriatic fauna to date.
The monument stands on the Riva of Zadar, right in the front of the University building.
Kornati National Park, the desert and sea
by JLBG
There are 147 islands and islets of various size in the Kornati archipelago ! They have no permanent inhabitants, though there exist a few villages. Vrulje is the main village of the main island. It has a few houses, no permanent inhabitants. The owners of the houses come in summer, mostly from Murter peninsula. Vrulje is proud of its 3 "streets" and 50 houses !
The main part of the Kornati archipelago is a National Park
In Summer, the Kornati are characterized by three colors : the blue of the sky, the dark blue of the sea and inserted between both, the dazzling white of the islands. Once you have seen that, you will never forget it !
From Zadar and Murter, it is possible to do day trips on the islands but the best way to enjoy them is to sail around the islands. See my Kornati Islands National Park page.
PLITIVICE LAKES – On the way...
by Kamen_mali
PLITIVICE LAKES – On the way from Zagreb to Zadar you pass through Plitivice.
The Plitvice Lakes were proclaimed a national park in 1949, and in 1979 they registered in UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
The park includes beautiful forests with sixteen large, and many small, lakes which emerge at the source of the Korana River. They form numerous cascades and beautiful waterfalls as they flow into one another.
The lakes are very attractive to visitors due to their incredible beauty, rich plant and animal life and numerous recreational facilities.
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stone path amidst ruins
Ilije Smiljanica
symbol of Zadar - the detail on the gate
the view towards centre
