CROATIA rest + sights: personal blog about Croatia interesting
Castle Veliki Tabor is the most famous Croatian castles.
The castle located on an elevated space covered in vegetation In the northwestern part of the Croatian Zagorje, not far from the settlement of Desinic, just 69 km from Zagreb city.
St Nicholas Fortress is located in 11 km from Sibenik city.
That is the second most important attraction of the Sibenik, ranked as a UNESCO monument since 2017.
The halls of Daenerys’s palace from the “Game of Thrones” series were filmed in Diocletian Palace in Split city.
Qarth – port city from the “Game of Thrones” – was filmed in a center of old Trogir town.
Trogir – properly preserved romantically-Gothic city, ranked as UNESCO monument.
Rastoke – a picturesque village in a small canyon with waterfalls (up to 12 meters high) and watermills – the historical centre of Slunj town, famous for its small waterfalls and well-preserved watermills.
Mostar town is located on Neretva river of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Along the course of the Neretva river, there is found the famous town of Mostar — one of the sights of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The name of the town of Mostar comes from the phrase “stari most”.
Dubrovnik is the most luxurious and sophisticated city of Croatia. Dubrovnik is also called “the pearl of the Adriatic”.
Dubrovnik is included by UNESCO in the list of the most beautiful monument cities of Renaissance Europe, next to Venice and Amsterdam. The population of Dubrovnik is 43,700 people.
World-known early Christian Euphrasian Basilica in Porec city is a unique sample of the Byzantine art. Basilica was built in the middle of 6th century on the stony foundation of the earlier St. Mavr church, which was built in the beginning of the 4th century.
Distance from the park to the city of Zagreb 137 km
Distance to the city of Pula 276 km
Distance to the city of Split 250 km
The Plitvice lakes national park is a dynamic system of 16 lakes connected by 92 waterfalls.
The total area of the lakes is about 2 sq.km., and of the national park it is 200 sq.km.
Sibenik is the regional centre of Sibenik-Knin country.
The Cathedral of St James of Sibenik is on the UNESCO world heritage list. The Cathedral of St James is the main symbol of Sibenik.
Split city could be called the most festive city of Croatia.
It is in the central part of Croatia’s coastline between the Zadar city and Dubrovnik city, splitting Dalmatia into two parts and is its heart.
Split was founded in the year 305; it recently turned 1710 years old!
The monumental city of Trogir is unique for having all of its historical centre being in the UNESCO list. The population of Trogir is 10,907 people.
The tourist green zone of Trogir – island Ciovo – popular Croatian resort.
BBC Plitvice lakes film documentary
Movie duration 1:52min
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National Park Plitvice Lakes of Croatia is among the TOP 10 most interesting water attractions: rivers, lakes and coasts in Europe in the rating of the columnists of the American newspaper New York Times … read more