Croatia Travel Blog

Study of Peljesac Bridge project

An important infrastructure project of Croatia is Peljesac Bridge, which construction has started a couple weeks ago. This project is one of the four major investment projects in Dubrovnik-Neretva County. The bridge will bypass a short stretch of land at Neum, Bosnia-Herzegovina’s only outlet to the sea, which cuts off the southernmost tip of …

Croatian Island Product – the new symbol for products of Islands of Croatia

Croatian Minister of the Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development, Božidar Kalmeta stated last week in Split, Croatia , during the introduction of the new sign “Croatian Island Product”, that goal of presenting this new symbol is to promote and protect original products from our islands, to position those products on the domestic …

Cruise the Adriatic aboard the MS Arion

The MS Arion cruises from city to city, island to island along the Croatian coast including Dubrovnik, Split, Korcula, Kotor in Montenegro, and Corfu, Corinth in Greece and Istanbul, and Kusadasi in Turkey.

Zadar Sea Organ, powered by lapping waves of Adriatic Sea – National Geographic Video

Zadar’s Sea Organ – a real music instrument built into Zadar‘s harbour and seafront is now the subject of a video by National Geographic and features an interview with Croatian architect Nikola Bašic, who explains how it was planned and designed. It also features the haunting music it creates, which, …

Adriatic Sea and a plague of invasive algae

In the recent article of BIRN, under the title “Greening of the Sea Gives Adriatic States the Blues” , there are some worrying details regarding the state of a plague of this invasive algae in waters of Croatia as well as surrounding countries.

Director of Croatian National Tourist Board, Niko Bulic at World Travel Market 2007

Photo of Croatian National Tourist Board’s director Niko Bulic while giving a speach ”The way forward – our blue and

Varaždin Baroque Evenings

During this year‘s 37th Varaždin Baroque Evenings , held in September in town of Varazdin, in Hrvatsko Zagorje, concerts have also been organised in Trakošcan Castle, in Ludbreg, Lepoglav, Varaždinske toplice, Krapina, Prelog, Zacretje, Križevci, Stubicki Golubovec, Osijek and Vukovar. Croatian musicians have been for the first time been joined …

Travel Weekly on Croatia at World Travel Market

In the latest eddition of Travel Weekly magazine, in their World Travel Market coverage, under the title “Croatia to push ecotourism”, Jane Archer writes about presentation of Croatian Tourism at WTM:

New Year’s Eve 2008 in Dubrovnik

An invitation to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Dubrovnik this year is comming from hotel complex Dubrovnik – Babin kuk of Valamar hotels – to spend an unforgetable New Year’s night in one of ten most desirable destinations for New Year’s Eve Celebration – Dubrovnik.

More investments in hotel facilities at island of Krk

The summer tourist season in Croatia has closed and hoteliers are again turning their attention to investments into upgrading the existing offer.