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The main attractions Zagreb
81 Reviews Braca Hrvatskog Zmaja (The Knights Order of the Dragon) was first founded in 1408 by Croato-Ungarin King Sigismund, under the name of Ordo Equestris Dragonis. This secret organisation, which members...
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Beautiful Dubrovnik Dubrovnik
35 Reviews Somehow I had never wanted to visit Dubrovnik. In the 1980s only old people from Germany went here. Then the war came and big parts of Dubrovik were destroyed. Only then I thought of it as a normal...
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Old Town (general) Split
19 Reviews I really like walking around the old town of Split after dark when the crowds have gone and just the cats are roaming around. Well, not quite but still you will get a totally different impression and...
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Beautiful Coastline Hvar
4 Reviews Agave plants are growing everywhere. After about one hundred years of growth, the plant produces a flower which looks like a tree (see the picture) - it dies. But there are many small agave plants...
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Waterfalls & Cascades Plitvicka Jezera National Park
23 Reviews Veliki prštavci means the sputtering waterfall. It is situated in the area of the Upper Lakes nearby Galovacki buk. The nature has created a kind of amphitheatre with a curtain of falls. This is...
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The architecture of the town Zagreb
29 Reviews Zagreb is packed with architectural interesting sights and buildings. Among the most famous are the two Neo-Gothic bell towers, the Romanesque Lotrscak Tower or the various architectural styles of the...
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General Info Dubrovnik
18 Reviews Dubrovnik has so much to see and do and the best place to stop off at first is to visit the Tourist Information Office at the Pile Gate area opposite the Onofrio's Fountain and off Placa. There you...
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Riva & Harbour area Split
7 Reviews Hi there. There is parking available at the Riva. If you follow signs to the ferry port you will see the barrier for it to the right of the Jadrolinija ticket office, just near the market and...
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Hvar Town Hvar
4 Reviews Hvar is one of those towns that simply can't have dull history. So many nomads, warriors, pirates, traders and artists visited it’s streets, it became cosmopolitan before some of today’s European...
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Prices, entrances, maps & other info Plitvicka Jezera National Park
6 Reviews Before you enter the park there are a number of routes advertised on the boards, you are free to move about the park as you wish and take the long or short routes, if you are pushed for time but want...
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City maps and guides Zagreb
9 Reviews A great resource for information about travels to Eastern or Central Europe is "In Your Pocket". It provides information of more than 50 cities at the travel portal www.inyourpocket.com. About 20...
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Beaches Dubrovnik
7 Reviews OK we were on the further peninsula - Babin Kuk. Also plenty of hotels here - most with beaches nearby. The Copacabana is the largest beach in this complex (and the nearest to our hotel) partly open...
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Surrounding Islands Split
8 Reviews Most people come to Split as a passageway to the Islands of Dalmatia and for Dubrovnik. For the islands the ferry service is essential, and offers some of the best views of Split and the islands. For...
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Jelsa Hvar
2 Reviews I was looking at all those houses and wondered if I could ever affort one. And I found a very good website, right here, in an Internet cafe. Those people, after you tell them your price range, show...
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Lakes Plitvicka Jezera National Park
13 Reviews All you need is to come freely here, to this unique gallery of Nature, to listen to the flickering murmur of the falls, to gaze at the abundance of stony shapes, the reflections of the firs and...
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Emblems of the town Zagreb
8 Reviews Here stands the statue to King Tomislav, the first King of the medieval state of Croatia, after whom the square is named. King Tomislav Square is a large park with a fountain in the middle and the Art...
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Islands Dubrovnik
3 Reviews When I was in Dubrovnik in both February and in March (of different years) there weren't many islands that one was able to go to on a daytrip. By default, I ended up on Mljet, which is only a twohour...
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Cathedral & Bell Tower Split
7 Reviews Split's Old Town and the Diocletian's Palace are full of interesting sights, including this impressive six storey campanile that rises above the Cathedral of St. Domnius in the heart of the palace. It...
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Moving around Plitvicka Jezera National Park
10 Reviews National Park Plitvicka Jezera, founded in 1949, is part of UNESCO World Heritage since 1979, and is one of the oldest national parks in Central Europe. The protected area of the park extend over 297...
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People Zagreb
6 Reviews You will probably love the fact that almost everybody speaks at least some basic English. If you aim younger people, you're very likely to get quality speakers who will anwser your questions without...
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Dubrovnik Summer Festival Dubrovnik
1 Review DSF is held annually for the past 55 years. It is very important part of Dubrovnik tradition. The festival brings many music, theatre and folklore events. It is very important to see at least one...
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Local sports Split
6 Reviews A picture of the players. if you are in doubt then the danes are in blue. I couldn't get used to that! Where I was sitting there were only about 200 danes, mostly from the international brigade, and...
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Fish, Animals & Wildlife Plitvicka Jezera National Park
4 Reviews As you are walking on the wooden footpaths around the lakes ,you will see lots of trout! Everywhere! You can not miss them and some of them are huge! I am guessing these trout are probably quite...
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Geographical position&climate Zagreb
4 Reviews This is the picture of the squareI did in the first week of January 2003. The town of Zagreb, under the snow, is particularly attractive, many says at that time Zagreb is a real beauty, howevr, it...
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Diocletian's Palace Split
9 Reviews Today, the well preserved Roman architecture is interlaced with several layers from later ages. The old core of the town, so-called Varos, is situated inside the walls of the palace which was of huge...
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Split city amazed me for its well preserved roman ruins. Not like most of roman ruins, these are still IN USE, as the modern Split has grown around the original roman city and has adapted its original streets, so you can live "inside the palace" area, surrounded by the original temples and roman archs...
If you plan to visit some croatia restaurants during your visit try new Croatia Gastro guide - www.croatia-gastro.net . The site is based on google maps tecnology so beside information and descriptions there is also the exact geolocation of the restaurants, taverns, agrotourisms etc...This site is part of the Croatia Map project (www.croatia-map.net) where you can find many other accomodation facilities(hotels,vilas,appartments,rooms,campings,hostels,agrotourism) and informations with direct contact with owners. Also there are national parks,tourist attractions, marinas with yacht charter offer,weather forecast for 7 days, diving centers etc...all with exact geo location...very usefull and interesting
In this area, formerly inhabited mostly by Serbians, the scars of war were still more than obvious: burnt houses and locals who stood in aloof reticence seemed to be quite common. We stayed in one of the state-run hotels within the National Park, built in a "socialist" style. The park was a bit of a disappointment for us. Maybe we had set our expectations far too high and the number of visitors was really excessive. But still, the scenery was truly beautiful.From there, we drove on to the Kvarner Bay, where we visited Rijeka, the port city which was a really surprise for us, and Opatija, a classy resort during the time of the Habsburg reign but which, like most of the rest of Croatia, did not have any sandy beahes. However, we found enough to do for a couple of days before we went to the peninsula of Istria, our next destination.Our Istrian base was the historic town of Pula, which did...
We arrived in Dubrovnik after an overnight ferry-cross from Bari. Several people awaited the tourists on the port and offered rooms for hire in their homes. We stayed with a very nice family who lived up on the hills dominating the old town. At sunset, the view from up there was really awe-inspiring. The room was simple and the return up-hill from downtown was quite a trek, but still, a fantastic deal for the price we paid.By that time, there were no signs at all of the bombings that the city had suffered a few years back and the old city could be enjoyed in its full glory. We toured the ramparts, had romantic dinners in local restaurants and made day-trips to the National Park of the island of Mljet and Cavtat. In the absence of sandy beaches, we enjoyed the sunshine on some of the many rocky islands that lined the coast, which were easily accessible by small boats.When we had enough of...
There is a non-commercial web service that might be useful to travelers.Based on the entered address or GPS coordinates you get the list of the'points of interest' that are the closest to your location. Among the currently supported categories ATMs, Banks, Pharmacies, Post offices and Gas stations could be the most useful.Web service is reachable at:http://www.lociraj.net/?lang=en_USand version optimized for cell phones and hand held computers is at:http://mobile.lociraj.net/
Ask anyone in Australia what is the archetypal Aussie cake - the answer is bound to be a lamington. A square of sponge cake, rolled in chocolate sauce and coconut, you find them all over the country. I never expected to find them in Croatia!Years of immigration have seen the introduction of a wonderful variety to food in Australia - what we eat and the way we cook it. I guess this is just a little reciprocation. I'd love to know who it was who turned the tables and took this little bit of Oz back to the old country. There they were though, in bakers everywhere, as Aussie as vegemite, lamingtons! I'm not so sure that it's been a fair trade.
Wonderful as the water is in Croatia, some of the beaches are little more than concrete platforms over the water and others are very narrow. For someone coming, as I do, from a place where the beaches are wide stretches of pure white sand, these places hardly qualify as beaches at all. However, lots of them have what I would love to see here at home ... cafes right on the beach. Simple, a few tables and chairs under an awning or shady trees, somewhere you can get a beer or a coffee, where parents can watch their children playing just a few feet away from them, where you can sit in a chair (good for creaky joints) and relax by the water, stay for dinner if you like. We have have beautiful cafes at our beaches with balconies and terraces but none of them are actually down on the shore - and it's just not quite the same
It is very humbling to realise the terrible turmoils this lovely country (in fact the whole region) has been through & the galiant efforts it has been through to try & recover & attract tourists back.I hope in 10 years I will be visiting Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine - when the madness is over
Visit TROGIR, an historical town on a small island; a cathedral from the 13th century with the famous portal of the master Radovan, part of UNESCO's World Heritage. The town of Trogir is situated 30 km north of Split, don't miss it when around.
My favourite thing about Croatia is that, like in Spain where natural orange juice is really popular here it's natural lemon juice. I always make lemon water, squeezing fresh lemon juice into mineral water. So you can imagine my delight when I order a Limunada and discover that's exactly what it is. They do supply you with sugar too, but I prefer it without!
Regent Esplanade Hotel Zagreb
16 Reviews and 348 Opinions We stayed here from 30 Dec 2011 to 1 January 2012. This is truly an excellent hotel. Staff and...
Hotel Bellevue Dubrovnik Dubrovnik
5 Reviews and 322 Opinions Hotel Bellevue is a unique hotel located in a spectacular cliff top position overlooking the...
Radisson Blu Resort, Split Split
8 Reviews and 172 Opinions The guide told us it was situated so close to the center that we could walk back there. But the bus...
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Q: Hello, can EU nationals from non neighbouring countries to Croatia enter the country with a valid ID only? It's so confusing...
A: The Croatian Embassy website http://uk.mfa.hr/?mv=167&mh=42&dmid=86#pocdrz says: * Crossing the state border of the Republic of Croatia requires either a valid...
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