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ZAGREB, 19 July 2022 - During the handover of books by Ukrainian authors to the National and University Library (NSK) on Tuesday, Culture Minister Nina Obuljen Koržinek said that their availability in Croatian libraries can help refugees from Ukraine to integrate more easily into their new environment. The handover was held as part of the "Ukrainian books on the shelves of the world's libraries" project, launched at the initiative of the wife of the Ukrainian president, Olena Zelensky. "This is our contribution to efforts to make the Croatian and Ukrainian people closer to each other in these difficult times and our contribution to help the…

July 19, 2022 - Morfar opened almost a month ago in Split, and it has caused a sensation not only among Argentinians and the Latin community in the city but among Croats and tourists alike. Total Croatia News caught up with Santiago Nieto, the owner of the Argentinian empanadería which is causing a stir in the Dalmatian city. In my 27 years of life, I've never heard so much anticipation over a food joint opening before. Weeks before it happened, all I'd heard was "hey, did you know an Argentine empanada place is opening soon in Split?" After its long-awaited opening…

July 19, 2022 - The Zadar Tourist Board is trying to send a message to tourists wearing minimal clothing, but is a Zadar swimsuit ban really in place? A look at the new campaign.  The Zadar Tourist Board has decided to follow the example of cities like Dubrovnik and put an end to inappropriately-dressed tourists around the city center, reports 24 Sata.  "Although it is not officially prohibited in Zadar, we ask that you respect the local customs and cultural tradition by not wearing only swimsuits when you are not on the beach, for whatever reason, even if only for…

July 19, 2022 - The 4th International poetry festival Split na dlanu ("Split in your palm") was held in Split on July 16. That is an event where poets from all over Croatia, neighboring countries, and Europe participate. All the selected poems for this festival are published in the Croatian language. Poets from Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Germany, Montenegro, Luxembourg, and North Macedonia are represented in the festival collection this year. The organizer was Zdravko Odorčić, playwright, writer and poet from Zagreb, who is also the president of the KULTura sNOVA association. The organization in Split was largely…

July the 19th, 2022 - Is the idea of a much talked about Croatian fast train network just a pipe dream that will continue to swallow money and lead to next to nothing in the end? As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, it is practically impossible to avoid running into crowds and chaos in passenger traffic during the summer season, especially this one which has been almost entirely created as a result of the increased demand for services which had been previously devastated by the global coronavirus pandemic. Not only that, more than ever, the focus of decision-makers has fallen on trains…

ZAGREB, 18 July 2022 - The first group of 42 students from Petrinja Secondary School and the Sisak School of Economics, and three travelling companions left on Monday for a summer camp in Hungary. The secondary school students will spend eight days on their summer holiday in Hungary. This is a result of good cooperation between Sisak-Moslavina County and the Hungarian government, which made it possible for about a hundred secondary school students to attend a summer camp in two groups, on 18-25 July and on 25-31 July. The students will be accommodated in a hotel with a swimming pool, near Lake…

July 21, 2022 - Twenty years a foreigner in Croatia. Part 11 of 20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years - Croatia's most undiscovered destination with the very warmest welcome. Slavonia. "Excellent service, thank you. Where are you from in Croatia?" "Slavonia, Sir, a beautiful region in the east, far from the sea." My first introduction to the region of Slavonia, once the breadbasket of south-east Europe, was through one of its finest exports - its reliable and hard-working workforce. Over the years in my time in Dalmatia and the rest of the coast and islands, I encountered a…

ZAGREB, 18 July 2022 - A humanitarian campaign for Ukraine by the Croatian Association of Fine Artists' (HDLU) Vinkovci branch wrapped up in the eastern town of Vinkovci on Sunday with an exhibition and the handover of 62 works by 57 artists to the Ukrainian Embassy. "We are giving these works of art to the Ukrainian people with the wish that they ennoble the walls of two to three schools and one institution in Ukraine, to be selected by the Ukrainians," said HDLU Vinkovci vice president Marko Lončar. He said the exhibition was called Culture to Culture "because we Croats are giving part of…

July the 18th, 2022 - The devastating Sibenik fires which have burned down houses recently have worked to remind us of the dangers of the dry Dalmatian landscape and the extremely harsh rays of the summer sun at this time of year.  While wildfires break out in Croatia, particularly in Dalmatia, at this time of year almost like clockwork, the human cost is always staggering and unfathomable. To lose your house in a blaze and be able to do absolutely nothing about it is incomprehensible to most people, but a rapid response to this has seen families who have lost…

July the 18th, 2022 - The Split waters are richer for around 100,000 octopuses in their early phases of development after they were released there as part of a wider project involving them. As Morski writes, the Split Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, in cooperation with the Croatian Association for Sport Fishing at Sea, has begun research into the possibility of raising octopuses in their early developmental stages for the purpose of their repopulation. As part of the research, hundreds of thousands of individual octopus larvae were released into the sea, more precisely into the Split waters. Over the next year, the…