Travel

October 30, 2019 - Did you know that the Imotski region has its own islet, with an excavation currently underway? Meet Manastir. This islet is located along the western edge of the Imotski field, in Prološko Blato - and with its distinctiveness and beauty, it’s so small that it could fit comfortably into the frame of a football field. The area around it on the west side consists of three beautiful lakes in the Lokvicici municipality, and on the east and south sides, it is surrounded by the water of Prološko Blato, which only slightly recedes in the late summer…

October 29, 2019 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for new flights to Croatia with updates from Split. Avio Radar reports that Great Dane Airlines, a new Danish airline that only started operating in June this year, has announced its 2020 summer flight schedule, which includes its first line to Croatia. Namely, Great Dane will run between Aalborg and Split once a week, on Saturdays, from June 26 to August 29, 2020. This is a brand new line that is not operated by any other airlines, and will run in cooperation with Scandinavian travel agency Appolo Reiser. There are…

October 29, 2019 - Varazdin County moves to a more sustainable transport model by offering train passengers free bicycle transport.  HRTurizam writes that at the railway station in Varazdin, the chairwoman of the Varazdin County Tourist Board, Natalija Martincevic, and the director of the Varazdin County Tourist Board, Miran Bojanic Morandini, presented a unique project - free bicycle transport on trains. “The County of Varazdin, in cooperation with HZ Passenger Transport, is the first in Croatia to launch the free bicycle transport project for train passengers. Citizens thus also acquire the right to free bicycle transport on trains operating in Varazdin…

October 28, 2019 - We know that orchestrating your company’s conferences, meetings or team building events can take time and test your patience, but it doesn’t have to be all that bad in the end - that is, if you choose Marvie Hotel & Health.  Marvie Hotel & Health opened its doors back in 2017 as the first hotel specializing in health tourism in Dalmatia, with each segment of its offer focused on quality self-care. Located in Split's residential area of Zenta, known as one of the city’s poshest neighborhoods, Marvie is spacious and modern, boasting an underground garage on…

Could Uniline create the right conditions to attract American tourists with a high purchasing power to Istria? Maybe. ''I believe such offerings and facilities could be of interest to American tourists and that over time we could make greater use of the potential that this market has. In any case, contacts have been established, we're currently in the process of defining the program and I believe that next year, we'll be able to boast of our first guests as well, and we'll start to conquer this new market more strongly,'' claims Lia Fioranti. As Glas Istre/Milan Pavlovic writes on the…

Međimurje is the northernmost region in Croatia, quite clearly separated from the other areas by the Mura River (to the neighbors on the North, Slovenia, and Hungary) and the Drava River to the South (where it marks the "border" between Međimurje, Zagorje and Podravina). The Drava River, the south border of Međimurje is one of the very significant Central-European rivers and is the 5th largest tributary to the Danube river. It originates in Italy and flows through Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, and it flows into the Danube at the border with Serbia. If you were to look at a map of…

October 27, 2019 - After the sea organ in Zadar, Croatia will receive another similar attraction next year - a wind organ in the Neretva Valley.  Namely, a wind organ is being built above Rogotin near Ploce in the Neretva Valley. The project is also a successful case of utilizing European funds - of the 3 million kuna needed to construct it, Brussels will finance 80% of the costs, HRT reports. The wind organ will be built as part of the edu-eco complex on Tovro hill, which is part of the project "Promoting the Sustainable Development of the Natural Heritage…

October 26, 2019 - Hvar adventure tourism takes to the open seas, as Hvar and Italy are connected by kayak in Lesina 2 Lesina 2019.  I have a good friend from Hvar called Vese. She is an adrenaline freak and is always up to something crazy. Now the owner of the successful And Adventure active tourism agency, she was one of the pioneers of adventure tourism on Hvar with the first such agency back in 2005.  Just following her on Facebook made me feel a lot healthier, and her guys were always up to something crazy.  Such as time we…

October 26, 2019 - The free Android app CityBus Rijeka is now available to residents and visitors of the city.  HRTurizam writes that using the available data through the open data portal of the City of Rijeka, Zadar company Smart Solutions came to the idea that after developing the mobile application for the City of Zadar, they would implement the same for Rijeka. This app is a unique guide to public transport in the entire Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. It is currently available for free download through the Google Play Store. The application displays marked bus stops in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County…

October 26, 2019 - The A-List Hvar celebrity love is returning to Croatia's premier island, with some stars leaving gifts.  I had never heard of the island of Hvar until two days before my first visit in 2002, from which I emerged with a property purchase and a new home. My first impressions were that it was an island of breathtaking beauty and great food. But I really had no idea what treasure I had actually stumbled upon.  And as the years went by, and especially when I started research for the first modern guide book about the island, I…