For all of you who are based or will visit Vienna, Berlin or Paris, and are interested in Croatian contemporary art, this is the opportunity to see work of Sanje Ivekovic, the well known Croatian contemporary artist –  one of the key artists of her generation working today. Read the rest of this entry »

A lovely 4 minutes video of Mljet Island , one of the Croatian National Parks,  is available on Youtube. Read the rest of this entry »

Mošćenice is medieval fortified town , located on a steep cliff  beneath the Mountain Učka, with its ancient walls and narrow stone streets.  The town has changed many owners throughout its tumultuous history, but has survived all challenges and has remained preserved until today. Mošćenice can only be entered through one gate, over which the Habsburg coat of arms is engraved. The houses are so compressed that the town does not have one square. The most dominating monument is the Church of St Andrew the Apostle. Read the rest of this entry »

The 1st Festival of Croatian Animated Film, dedicated to Croatian short animated films, will be held on 21 and 22 February in Zagreb in Kino Europa cinema. Read the rest of this entry »

In 2010 Split will be directly connected with 74 European destinations. This is a record number of European cities from which travellers will be able to directly reach Split Airport – the largest airport in the Adriatic. With all of the last year’s flights, 10 new destinations have been introduced to which Split will be connected, including Paris, Rome, London – Stansted, Hannover, Lille, Manchester and Basel. Split will be connected to 46 cities in 19 countries through regular air traffic, while charter planes will connect Split to 28 cities in 12 countries and three domestic destinations. Read the rest of this entry »

According to Jutarnji.hr , Jadrolinija’s Coastal Ferries that connect Rijeka with Dubrovnik via Split, Hvar, Korcula and Mljet , proceeding further to Bari in Italy, will sail from June to October only.

As I said in my previous post, the reason for this is high cost of running this ferry, as  it needs 62 crew members to sail while in winter month, there are only  in average 7 passengers that are using this ferry. Read the rest of this entry »