Zagreb Travel News
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Zagreb Film Festival 2011
The 9th Zagreb Film Festival will be held from 16th-23rd of October 2011, on on several locations in Zagreb, showing about 90 films in seven sets of programmes including : new film debuts – 12 feature films, 10 short films, and 16 documentaries, competing for the festival’s award – the Golden Pram, Croatian short films, Bib for Kids, My First Film, The Great 5 (new European films from Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Britain [...]
New Flights by Croatia Airlines
Croatia Airlines, the Croatian national air carrier, has recently officially confirmed that it has introduced many new direct flights in their summer timetable. New seasonal flights are being added from Zadar airport to Munich and Zurich. The first regular flight from Zadar to the Bavarian metropolis is scheduled for 3 May whilst from 29 September airplanes on that line will fly twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Direct connection [...]
Festival of Croatian Animated Film
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. The Festival resulted from traditional Days of Croatian Animation and it will be held every two years. The Festivals aim is to screen Croatian films and to promote animation as an artistic form. Beside film screenings it will also feature round tables, workshops [...]
Zagreb hosting Ski Events
Zagreb is currently, for the sixth time in a row hosting the best female slalom skiers and for the third time the best male slalom skiers of the world. This year, the female slalom was held on January 3rd, while the male slalom will be held three days later during night. Both events at the Audi FIS World Cup “VIP Snow Queen Trophy 2010” will be held on Sljeme, the tallest peak [...]
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb
The Museum of Contemporary Art (Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosit MSU) the largest museum institution in Croatia and the largest cultural institution since the independence of Croatia has recently been opened in Zagreb. The new building of the Museum will enable the appropriate conservation and exhibition of the collected art, and the conditions necessary for various programs, educational work-shops, film-projections and theatre performances aimed at the wider public and will make this [...]
Zagreb in The World Through a Lens
Zagreb was featured in yesterday’s edition of Observer’s series ” World throught a lens“. This is an extract from the article : A whirl of tutus in a Zagreb cafe-bar during a break in ballet rehearsals: poise, and skin, and fabulous discs of swan-white tuile, and yet what are our eyes drawn towards? Exactly. A little paper tube, being happily smoked… Read the whole article here
Photos of Tkalciceva Street in Zagreb
Small Photo Album of popular Tkalciceva Street in Zagreb is now uploaded in our Photos of Croatia Gallery. New photos include: Cafe Bar Servus in Tkalciceva / Café Cica, Tkalciceva / Cafes in Tkalciceva Street / Caffe Bar Suncani Sat in Tkalciceva / Casino in Tkalciceva / Crowd in Tkalciceva Street / Dusk in Tkalciceva Street, Zagreb / Galerija Vrbnik in Tkalciceva / Outside Seating in Tkalciceva cafe /Pivnica Medvedgrad [...]
Win a City Break to Zagreb
To celebrate the launch of new Time Out Zagreb Visitors Guide Magazine, Time Out teamed up with The Zagreb Tourist Board, Wizz Air and The Westin Zagreb, Zagreb to offer you the chance to win a three or five-night (your choice) city break in Zagreb, capital of Croatia. Two lucky couples will each receive complimentary flights from London Luton on WizzAir and three or five nights accommodation at the city centre’s [...]
Flights from Japan to Croatia
At the beginning of June, the first direct charter flight from Osaka to Zagreb arrived at Zagreb airport. The Croatian National Tourist Board organized a welcome ceremony for the 350 passengers and crew-members, who enjoyed a performance of the folklore ensemble, each receiving a traditional gingerbread heart (‘licitarsko srce’) as a gift. The charter flights are organized by the Japanese agency ‘Hankyu’. For Japanese visitors, they enable faster and easier [...]
Queer Zagreb Festival 2009
Queer Zagreb, festival which hosted so far some of the biggest figures of contemporary dance expression, controversial video projections, motivated discussions and artistic considerations is set to take place from 5th to 10th of May in Zagreb. ‘Queer Zagreb festival contributes each year to the cultural and social diversity of Croatia, as the program attracts wide audiences and allows them to see things differently – but also to see different things. [...]
Zagreb: Days of Croatian Film 2009
Days of Croatian Film Festival is opened today and will last until 23rd March 2009. The venue is Student Centre Cinemas in Croatian capital – Zagreb. The festival promoted the latest production of cinematography from Croatia. The selection includes feature films, documentaries, animations, experimental and short films. Click here to see complete programme of the festival.
CroTour – 2nd International Tourism Fair, Zagreb
The International Tourism Fair Crotour 2009 will take place at Zagreb at ‘Zagrebacki velesajam’ from 1st to 5th of April, with intention to introduce foreign tour operators to offers of tourist services of Croatia. The fair is intended for tour operators, owners of hotel , restaurants, marinas, campsites and other tourist facilities, as well as everyone else interested in using tourist services. It is also aimed at a very wide public [...]
5th ZagrebDox Festival Opened
The 5th ZagrebDox, an international documentary film festival, opened its door on Monday in Zagreb to all documentary fans and is still running until 01.03.09 The Festival was officially opened with the screening of Pinuccio Lovero A Midsummer Death’s Dream, a documentary about a frustrated undertaker who is having a tough time because none of his fellow citizens has died yet. Just before the screening, festival director and chief selector [...]
Zagreb Dox 2009 International Documentary Film Festival
ZagrebDox, an international documentary film festival is taking place in Zagreb from February 23rd to March 1st. The festival has three programs – the Regional Competition, the International Competition and the Documentary and Other program. At the festival that is celebrating its fifth birthday, the audience will have a chance to see over 120 contemporary documentary films, among which will be musical documentaries, films about current crisis of modern capitalism as well as [...]
Flights to Zagreb, Split and Dubrovnik from Denmark, Finland and Norway
Direct flights to Croatia will be introduced to better connect Nordic countries with Croatian Adriatic resorts in the forthcoming tourist season, travel agencies said at Denmark’s largest tourist fair FERIE 2009, which was closing on Sunday. Copenhagen, Oslo and Helsinki will be connected with Split and Dubrovnik by direct flights during the summer season. Norwegian low-budget airline Norwegian Air and Denmark’s Cimber Air will take over flights previously arranged with [...]
Croatian Family Adventue
In today’s Telegraph , Croatia is reviewed as family holiday destination for adventure holiday with teenagers. This is an excpert from the article: .. we handcrafted a holiday that offered all the elements they (teenagers) were after, albeit not in quite the same configuration. We would be providing them with a foreign location (Croatia), sunshine (temperatures in the mid-30sC), an element of the urban (three independently organised days in Zagreb), plus plenty of own-age [...]
Adriatic closer to visitors
The motorway network in Croatia is becoming longer and longer, so it is now safe to say that this is a country having one of the most developed road infrastructures in Europe. The construction of the remaining 14.5-kilometer-long sections of the Zagreb-Rijeka Motorway contributed to this. Last October, the construction of the full profile of the motorway connecting the Croatian capital with Rijeka was completed. Thanks to this, visitors to Croatia, arriving [...]
Zagreb: Snow Queen Trophy 2009
For the fifth time in a row, Zagreb will be the host to the best slalom women skiers of the world, while the competition for men skiers will be held for the second time. The competitions will be held on Sljeme, the highest point of Mount Medvednica during the night. Women’s slalom at the Audi FIS World Cup “VIP Snow Queen Trophy 2009” will be held on January 4, while [...]
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, workshops and similar gatherings. The design of the entire congress center has [...]
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 [...]
Zagreb Festival of Wine
From November 5th to 9th, on Petar Preradović Square in Zagreb, about fifty makers of top class, quality wine from Zagreb and its surroundings will present their products at the festival that is taking place for the 8th year in a row. The idea to organize the festival was born out of the need for winemakers to present their products in one place, but also to present the traditional customs of [...]
Exhibition of German Expressionists in Zagreb
An exhibition of German Expressionists is currently opened at the Gallery Klovićevi Dvori in Zagreb. The exhibition features 120 graphics and drawings by artists from one of the most powerful movements in modern European painting. The presented works fo art were collected from a number of museums and galleries in Germany and represent the works of all the major artists whose creations are related to “The Bridge” and “The Blue Rider” groups. Featured artsts include [...]
Rijeka – Zagreb Motorway Opened
With the last two sections on the Zagreb-Rijeka motorway completed, the 146-kilometre dual carriageway motorway was opened to traffic cutting down the trip between the two cities to just 75 minutes. The construction work on the motorway began in 1971 and is valued at 660 million euros. Also, the section of the motorway between Gorican and the Hungarian border and the new Mura bridge between Croatia and Hungary have been opened, so [...]
The Sixth Zagreb Film Festival
The 6th Zagreb Film Festival, festival for authors of their first or second movie, will take place between October 19th – 25th 2008. in Studentski centar (Student centre cinema) and cinema Europa in Zagreb, Croatia. Over 50 films will be competing to win the Golden Bib award in the main programme, and the whole programme includes over 80 films from around the world. The international competition for the Golden Bib [...]
Zagreb Gay Pride 2008
According to CroatiaPress.com, the seventh edition of Zagreb Pride is to be held on June 25 – 28 in Croatia’s capital Zagreb. The organisation committee has announced that this year’s Pride is to be closely monitored by international human right organisations and European institutions. The Zagreb Pride march will be held on Saturday, June 28, followed by a rock concert. Read about Gay Croatia
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