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Congress Centre at Hotel Antunovic Zagreb

The Hotel Antunović Zagreb, officially a four-star establishment with five-star service quality, includes a newly opened congress center with as many as 20 superbly equipped halls which extend over 2,500 square meters. The biggest hall located on the first floor, can seat up to 1000 people. There are also some 20 newly opened smaller rooms suitable for conferences,

Camp Slatina at Cres Island wins another award

Camp Slatina, operating with Jadranka kampovi headquartered in Mali Lošinj, won a high award for innovative environmental protection ideas at a specialized camping fair in Lyon. The camp is situated in Martinšćica on the island of Cres, and is known in both Croatian and international circles for its unique solutions,

New Year’s program in Valamar Diamant Hotel in Porec

Valamar Hotels and Resorts, Croatian largest hotel chain, has presented New Year’s Eve program in its popular Valamar Diamant Hotel in Porec, Croatia. Along with the program for the period from 29 December 2008 till 4 January 2009, created to suit the liveliest time of the year, Valamar announced some imaginative surprises for all participants in the New Year’s spectacle.

Mario Saletto exhibition opens in Zagreb

An exhibition dedicated to travel writer and the author of numerous TV documentary films, Mario Saletto, opened at the Technical Museum in Zagreb on Friday. The exhibition is titled ‘The World Revealed – TV Studio in a Backpack’ and documents Saletto’s body of work filmed with a 16mm Bolex camera, from mountain landscapes to the animal kingdom, sailing and skiing, and many others. Mario Saletto died in 2006.

Croatian PM: Croatian infrastructure projects will continue

According to HINA, the Croatian News Agency , asked by the press about the continuation of infrastructure projects, Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said that projects contributing to economic growth would continue, such as road construction, the construction of Pelješac Bridge, railway modernization, the expansion of the gas supply network, and irrigation projects.

Book on Vis and cricket playing on Croatian Island

Book ‘The Ascent of Mount Hum’ – A Croatian Cricketing Odyssey, written by Steven Haslemere is the eventful and often hilarious story of how Vis’ quiet Adriatic idyll was rudely shattered by the arrival of a rag-tag team of pub cricketers from Cambridge, who went intending to play the first cricket match on Vis in nearly two hundred years.

Rural Croatia: Village tourist estate Srce Prirode

The village tourist estate Srce prirode (The Heart of Nature) has been opened in Gorica Lipnicka, a village located on about twenty kilometers from the town of Karlovac in Central Croatia.

ZAGREB: A CULTURAL AND LITERARY HISTORY

ZAGREB: A CULTURAL AND LITERARY HISTORY book by Celia Hawkesworth, Foreword by Sonia Wild Bićanić: Situated at the foot of a range of hills on the edge of the great Pannonian Plain, for most of its history Zagreb has been a small town to which things happened. Administered from 1102 by Hungary and later absorbed into the Habsburg Monarchy, Zagreb was under threat from the advancing Ottomans until the late [...]

Camping Statistics of Croatia

A meeting of the European Federation of Campingsite Organizations and Holiday Park Associations (EFCO and HP), an organization established in 1979 and bringing together around 25 thousand European campingsites and camp resorts, was held in Umag in late September.

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