February 17, 2021 – Although the tourism sector has been hit hard by the coronavirus crisis, the International Tourist Guide Day in Croatia will be marked with occasional tours of Skradinski Buk in Krka National Park, Varaždin city, and Garešnica in northern Moslavina.

Since 1990, the International Tourist Guide Day is celebrated on February 21, when the World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations declared it. This year, their theme is "Tourist guides – contributors to rural tourism through creative storytelling." Some Croatian destinations decided to mark it offering walking and storytelling tours.

Krka National Park

In business and life in general, one should always be accommodating and kind. Such are the guides in Krka National Park. These enthusiastic and creative guides seek to teach visitors about the area's natural and cultural values through direct experience.

Krka National Park invites all nature lovers to join them in a guided tour of Skradinski Buk on Saturday, February 20, 2021. While enjoying the winter atmosphere, visitors will get acquainted with the exceptional flora and fauna, rich cultural and historical heritage, and traditional crafts in the ethno-village.

Skradinski Buk in Krka National Park / Copyright Romulić and Stojčić

The number of participants per group is limited, and you can book your visit via the following link. In the winter months, ticket prices for Krka National Park are 30 kunas for adults and 20 kunas for 7 to 18 years old children. The Park is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For Krka's guides, interpretation is not just a "job," but a way of exchanging values, emotions, and inspirations. It is successful when the visitor saw, experienced, and began to appreciate something in the protected area unknown to them before.

Varaždin

For the eleventh year in a row, the International Tourist Guide Day will be marked in Varaždin. On Sunday, Varaždin tourist guides will take citizens and their guests free of charge through the historic city center and introduce them to interesting facts from the history and present of Varaždin.

The starting point for tours of the historic city center will be in front of the City Hall, and the tours will start at 10.30 a.m. and 11.30 a.m., following epidemiological measures.

The city of Varaždin / Photo: Varaždin Tourist Board

Besides numerous facts, stories, and legends, visitors will learn some interesting things related to health – the tradition of hospitals in Varaždin, doctors in the past, where the first pharmacy was, and where public bathing areas were.

Garešnica trails of north Moslavina region

In Garešnica, the hometown of two world-famous personalities, "Mr. Morgen" Ivo Robić and Apollo engineer Mike Vucelić, the International Tourist Guide Day will be marked with free walking tours of northern Moslavina. A natural border, the Ilova River, separates Moslavina from neighboring Slavonia.

Photo: Northern Moslavina Tourist Board

During the six-kilometer walk, visitors will get to know the peculiarities of Garešnica and northern Moslavina: the old railway (where it led, how it connected Garešnica, when it ceased to serve its purpose), Equestrian Club Garić, Selište, Lake Skresovi (fishing tradition of Moslavina).

On Saturday, February 20, the tour will begin at 5 p.m, and on Sunday, February 21, at 9:30 p.m. on the Garešnica town square.

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As Korana Sutlic/Novac writes on the 12th of January, 2020, the Garešnica Techno Park is designed as a building that offers a large number of independent office spaces that companies and individuals can rent and customise to suit their needs. It was built at the initiative of the Town of Garešnica in order to enable the residents, as well as other interested parties, to develop the local business climate and is the work of the company 3E projects d.o.o.

The aim of the Techno Park is to encourage the development of entrepreneurship, and the construction of this facility has allowed for the renting of business premises on favourable lease terms with the use of a conference room, free internet and other benefits.

''Inside the facility, spaces for entrepreneurial support institutions are also foreseen, and all the planned facilities are complementary. The construction of the hall, Agro Park Garešnica in the second part of the plot is planned, which would complete the town's efforts to provide complete services for the development of entrepreneurship and agronomy,'' said Mirjana Miloševski Ntontos, an architect and urban planner at 3E projekti d.o.o.

Customers can customise their business premises to their needs. Offices of different sizes and for different users are located in the Techno Park building, with common rooms and spaces intended for a computer classroom, a conference room for up to fifty users and a kitchenette with a meeting room.

Within the Techno Park building, the business premises are divided into three units. In the right wing of the building, on the ground floor and on the first floor, there are five commercial premises for rent on each floor, separated as separate units by a door from communications and common areas. The business premises - offices for the work of three Entrepreneurial Support Institutions (PPIs) are located on the first floor and this unit is separated by a door from the rest of the building. The largest office is the director's office, partly highlighted by a cantilever from the building's corps that overlooks the access to the Techno Park.

The roof terrace, which is designed as a space for employees to socialise, as well as for preparing various events such as lectures, screenings and outdoor workshops, exits the kitchenette with a space for socialising. The ground floor is planned to accommodate a bistro for employees of the entire entrepreneurial zone with a capacity of up to fifty guests, with a partially covered terrace.

''The facility is located within the Kapelica Business Zone in Garešnica, in the immediate vicinity of the biogas power plant, so when working on the idea and design, this circumstance was used so that the by-product of the biogas plant is used to power the Techno Park,'' explained Mirjana Miloševski Ntontos.

Through the design and construction of the building, energy efficiency improvements have sought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible. The goal, as the architect explained, is to produce as much energy as is needed to reduce the release of carbon dioxide and other harmful gases into the atmosphere.

The building was designed to avoid heat accumulation inside the building itself during the warm summer months and heat loss during the winter months. Materials of excellent insulating properties for the facade were selected, an efficient ventilation system and heating systems were installed, using renewable energy sources. Thus, 74.3 percent of the total energy for the operation of the system in the building was generated from renewable energy sources,'' the architect pointed out.

All construction products that were installed in the building were selected for the rational use of energy and thermal protection. For the purpose of the functioning of the facility, in addition to conventional energy sources, all other available sources have been used, such as hot water as a by-product of the biogas plant, solar collectors, photovoltaic cells and heat pumps, meaning that the Techno Park building resulted from the synergy of various innovative solutions.

The “Construction and Equipping of the Garešnica Techno Park” project was financed under the Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014-2020 operational programme.

92 percent of the project's cost was financed with European Union money, and the rest was provided by the Town of Garesnica. The main designer of the Techno park is architect Branka Petković, and the associates are Jelena Šimat, Evangelos Georgios Ntontos and Mirjana Miloševski Ntontos. The landscape project was designed by architects Darija Breitenberger, Nikolina Krešo, Tanja Udovč and Mate Rupić.

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