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May 7, 2022 - On Saturday, May 7, Split celebrates its City Day, honoring Sveti Duje, Split's patron saint.  A look at Sudamja 2022! A solemn mass began the celebration on the Split waterfront by the Apostolic Nuncio to Croatia, Monsignor Giorgio Lingua, and a procession was held, reports Jutarnji List. The Minister of Culture and Media, Nina Obuljen Koržinek, and the Minister of the Economy and Sustainable Development, Davor Filipović, participated in the celebration as a delegate of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia. Numerous visitors from neighboring cities and municipalities and the island came to Split, and…

May 7, 2022 - Everyone's favorite Diocletian's Cellar wine event returns after a two-year hiatus. Vinski Podrum is back on May 20 and 21! The highly anticipated festival of wine and delicacies organized by Slobodna Dalmacija returns to Diocletian's cellars after two years! The event is held in one of the most beautiful wine cellars in the world, which, like the entire imperial palace, is under UNESCO protection, reports Slobodna Dalmacija. On Friday and Saturday, May 20 and 21, numerous winemakers, wine lovers, olive growers, olive oil lovers and connoisseurs will gather in Split for a wonderful festival of wine and…

May 7, 2022 - In our new TCN series, we uncover the lives of expats that have spent over 5 years in Split. First up, meet Elga Mannik! Two idyllic weeks on a Croatian beach is very different from the realities of full-time living. So what is it really like to live in Croatia as an expat? In a new series on TCN, we meet expats who have lived here for 5 years or more, to find out from them the good, the bad, and the ugly of 12-month living in Croatia. First up, Elga Mannik from Canada! 1. Tell…

May 7, 2022 - Šibenik Catholic school olive oil returned to Croatia with a gold medal at the NYIOOC world competition in New York! While some may be surprised by this news, the Šibenik Catholic school olive oil connoisseurs believe it was expected, writes Šibenski.hr. In the competition of oil mills from Italy, Spain, Greece, Morocco, Turkey, New Zealand, Japan, USA, Israel, Tunisia, China, France, Portugal, Cyprus, Lebanon and about twenty oil mills from Croatia, Šibenik was declared the best. Around 1,174 samples were submitted to the competition, which proves that the Šibenik Catholic school produces world-renowned oil. This whole story…

May the 7th, 2022 - A Bulgarian delegation from Gabrovo University recently paid a visit to Zagreb University, more specifically to the Faculty of Metallurgy which is located in Sisak. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, this past week, a delegation of the Technical University of Gabrovo, led by the Rector prof. dr. sc. Iliy Zhelezarov and vice-rector, doc. dr. sc. Plamen Tsankov, paid a visit to one of Zagreb University's faculties in Sisak. The visit of the Bulgarian Technical University to the Faculty of Metallurgy in Sisak was part of a working visit by a delegation from the Bulgarian city of…

May 6, 2022 - This week, for the first time, an event aimed at bringing science closer to the public, the Science Festival is being held in Vukovar. The Science Festival is an event that has been held in Croatia since 2003 with the aim of bringing science closer to the public by informing about activities and results in the field of science, improving public perception of scientists, and motivating young people to research and acquire new knowledge, reported Sudarić, dean of the Vukovar College of Applied Sciences. "We brought this event to Vukovar precisely to encourage our young people, especially…

May 6, 2022 - The 30-kilometer Limes Bike Tour is held on May 14 this year, revealing the hidden beauties of the Lim Channel. Spend an exciting spring Saturday in Istria as the recreational bike ride for athletes, recreationists, and anyone looking for good fun out in nature returns in its new edition. Limes Bike Tour, organized by the Vrsar Tourist Board, is held on May 14 this year, and the 30-kilometer trail reveals many hidden beauties of the Lim Channel that feed the soul and body. The cycling race starts at 10 am on the Vrsar waterfront. First, riders…

May the 6th, 2022 - The 9th Pink Day Festival has now officially been announced, and it is set to take place on the 21st and the 22nd of May, 2022, at Zagreb's beautiful Lauba. The 9th Pink Day Festival, dedicated to rosé wines (together with the "festival within a festival" dedicated to extra virgin olive oil) GREEN IN PINK by Romerquelle, the official water of the festival, will be held for the first time this year over two days - Saturday the 21st and and Sunday the 22nd of May, 2022. The 9th Pink Day Festival will also take…

May the 6th, 2022 - Dubrava Hospital doctors have performed a form of surgery that has never been done before in the Republic of Croatia, highlighting (once again) the incredible medics this country can boast of, and just how much they deal with and succeed in even within the constraints of a severely strained and underfunded healthcare system. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, for the first time ever in Croatia, an operation was performed by Dubrava Hospital doctors in order to reconstruct both feet. A team from Dubrava Hospital enabled a migrant from Gambia to take a new step (quite literally)…

ZAGREB, 4 May 2022 - It should be possible for every woman in Croatia to terminate pregnancy even after ten weeks if there are medical reasons for that, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday after the media reported on the case of a 39-year-old woman whose second child in the womb has an aggressive brain tumour. The ministry called on all health institutions to timely and accurately inform their patients of their rights and possibilities that exist in Croatia. Mirela Čavajda, whose second child got an aggressive brain tumour in the womb, told the Index web portal, which was the…