Croatia Travel Blog

Croatian Archipelago

The eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea belonging to Croatia really is a series of islands and coastline surrounded by Europe. The Germans, Austrians or Czech and Hungarians must travel south to reach it; the French must travel towards the east, the Italians northeast or north and the Greeks depending …

WEATHER FORECAST for Sailors in Croatia

The rule is that the person operating the ship must at least twice a day carefully monitor and analyse the weather forecast, the one for navigators. We can receive forecasts over the television and radio news, internet and mobile services and weather-faxes. However, most often it will be via the …

UNESCO Heritage of Croatia on Posters

A growing interest in Croatian cultural heritage, coupled with the efforts of those working in tourism to promote it, are the moving force behind a new Croatian National Tourist Board poster series featuring motifs of areas under UNESCO protection. Their total print run is 36,000 copies featuring 18 different motifs. …

Croatia halts Aussie’s Adriatic crossing

An Australian adventurer attempting a perilous sea crossing to make a point about police states found out the hard way that authoritarianism dies hard in eastern Europe. Shane Braddock, 34, met with yet more official resistance on Tuesday in his bid to kayak from Croatia to Italy across the Adriatic Sea. He …

CROATIAN GOVERNMENT RECOGNISES MONTENEGRO

This is a very good news for travel around Croatia, Montenegro and Adriatic coast – Croatian government today recognised Montenegro. Lot of people who travel around Croatia visit Montenegro too. After this announcement, we expect better transport connections and cooperation between our two neighbouring countries for benefit of everyone 🙂 …

Tintoretto’s Painting in Korcula’s Cathedral

After a four years long restoration and research process, it is confirmed that the main altar painting in Korcula’s Cathedral Sveti Marko is indeed painted by famous Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto. According to information issued by Katarina Kusijanovic of Hrvatski Restauratorski Zavod in Dubrovnik, the institution that was doing restoration and research …

Croatians change World Cup jerseys

03.06.06 – Croatia has bowed to a request by football’s governing body FIFA to change the design of their World Cup jerseys. It was ruled that there was too much white on them, the Zagreb daily Vecernji List reported Friday. The decision means the team will play in Germany with …

New Aquarium in Vodice

Vodice, the small town in northern Dalmatia, 11 km Northwest of Sibenik, with population of just over 5000 residents is getting a large aquarium. The aquarium will be located in area of 650 square meters within the attractive building at the very centre of Vodice town. It is going to be the largest aquarium in Dalmatia, equipped with …

Brvnara – A Wooden House in Lika

In Croatian region of Lika , in small village of Milinkovici, near Smiljani, it is still possible to see the sample of original rural wooden house called brvnara. The above picture is taken for Vecernji List newspaper, that published it as interesting sample of the dying rural Croatian Architecture. The …

Lopud and Susak Islands among “Ten secret islands in the Mediterranean”

In last Saturday’s issue of Times Online Travel Magazine, in the featured article ” Ten secret islands in the Mediterranean” , two of Croatian Islands are featured : Lopud Island and Susak Island. Both of these Croatian islands enjoy benefit of traffic free zone. We believe this is one of …