ZAGREB, the capital of Croatia, situated on the slopes of Medvednica Mountain (Zagrebacka Gora) and along the banks of the Sava River. The favorable geographic position in the south-western part of the Pannonian Basin which extends to the Alpine, Dinaric, Adriatic and Pannonia regions, provides the best valuation of traffic connection. between Central Europe and the Adriatic Sea. Gornji Grad is a more recent name for the mediaeval town which was chartered in 1242 (by the so-called Golden Bull) and thus obtained the status of "the free royal town on Gradec Hill of Zagreb". It lies on a slope between the walls constructed around the mid-13th century. The town used to have four gates. The Stone Gate (Kamenita Vrata), the only preserved city gate, represents the entrance to the Upper Town. It was first mentioned in the Middle Ages, and its present aspect dates from 1760, when the Baroque chapel of the Mother of God was constructed around the old painting by a local master…
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VARAŽDIN is one of the most important tourist centres of the entire northern Croatia. The variety of cultural and historical offer in the city and its surroundings, as well as the beautiful countryside attract many visitors the whole year round. The urban heart of this Central European Baroque town, which is often compared with Vienna, is very well preserved. The old town fortification, the central part of the town, numerous museums, galleries and collections as well as the Varaždin cemetery, protected as a horticultural monument, represent the main tourist attractions…

TRAKOŠĆAN CASTLE is an important tourist resort in the immediate vicinity of the international highway Zagreb - Maribor and the state border with the Republic of Slovenia. Famous for the beautiful castle of the Draskovic family and the artificial lake, it represents an unavoidable destination of numerous visitors to the region of Hrvatsko Zagorje. Trakoscan Lake was created in the mid-19th century by construction of the dam and separation from the springs of the Bednja River. It has a length of around 1.5 km and the depth reaches around 2.5 m. In the summer, the water is warm enough for swimming but freezes in the winter, offering ice-skating opportunities. The whole belt around the lake with the park-forest is protected as an important landscape… TABOR CASTLE - Veliki Tabor, a fortified castle located on a beautiful hill near the locality of Desinića, dominating the southwestern most part of Hrvatsko Zagorje, counts among historical monuments of utmost category according to UNESCO classification. There is a theory that the Castle stands on top of an island of what was once the Panonian Sea. Another theory suggests that where the Castle stands today there was a Roman fortress in the 2nd century.

But the most interested is the legend:  In the long winter nights in the calls of owls, sometimes you can hear the carries of Veronike Desinicke, at times the pretty girl who lived in the 15th century in the place of scenic beauty Desinic beneath the Veliki Tabor castle, in which the powerful Ban Croatian Count Herman II Celjski lived. His young and handsome son Fredric, riding across his father’s land, the beautiful Veronica caught his eye, with whom he soon fell in love with...

PLITVICE LAKES are the most known Croatian national park and are entered in the UNESCO Register of World Natural Heritage. Sixteen little lakes interconnected with waterfalls created by deposition of travertine, a special kind of limestone, constitute the main attraction of this unique park. The park includes the spring of the Korana River in the area surrounded by dense forests of beech, fir and spruce, partly in the form of primeval virgin forest. Apart from the lakes and forests, the Park is ornamented with several caves, springs, flower meadows, and is inhabited by brown bear, among other animal species. The popularity of this park is also in the use of special vehicle for transporting visitors (panoramic trains and electric boats), and is  conveniently situated at the main road from Zagreb to Dalmatia...

OPATIJA, often called the Nice of the Adriatic, is one of the most popular tourist resorts in Croatia and a place with the longest tourist tradition on the eastern coast of the Adriatic. In 1844 the powerful merchant Higinio von Scarpa erected Villa Angiolina, with beautiful green and a lavish park around it, visited by distinguished guests - the Croatian Viceroy Josip Jelacic, the Austrian empress Maria Anna - which soon made Opatija a popular excursion destination of the inhabitants from Rijeka, then of the Italians and Austrians…

PULA The most famous and important monument, the starting and ending point of every sightseeing tour is the Amphitheater, popularly called the Arena of Pula, which was once the site of gladiator fights. It was built in the 1st century AD during the reign of Emperor Vespasian, at the same time as the magnificent Coliseum in Rome. Entrances in Amphitheatre and August Temple included…

ROVINJ - One of the most 'photogenic' towns in the Mediterranean, once a fishing town, today is a tourist resort. Rovinj is a typical Mediterranean town, with colorful palaces and a beautiful church named after its patroness, St. Euphemia, housed within the town walls. At a distance of some 40 kilometers from Pula, Rovinj has long been known as the town with favorable and beneficial climatic features. So, today its people are still proud of this long tradition and 'fight' for the title of 'healthy town'... The rest is nature's work. The entire coastline, with its twenty-two islands is an area of protected natural heritage…

POREČ, a town, port and tourist resort on the western coast of Istria. The peninsula represents the natural border of the town in which remains of the Roman architecture can be found even today
Porec is a tourist centre famous for its beautiful natural landscape, long tradition in tourism and several well-equipped tourist resorts. In 1844 the steamers society, the Austrian Lloyd from Trieste, opened a tourist line which included Porec, and already in 1845 the first tourist guide of Porec was printed.  The most important master piece is famous St. Euphrasy’s' Basilica (early Christian architecture, form 6th century, protected by UNESCO since 1997.)

ZADAR gained its urban structure as early as Roman times; in the time of Caesar the town was fortified, while in the time of Emperor Augustus, the town walls with towers and numerous gates were built on the side facing the land. On the western side of the town were the forum, the basilica and the temple with a cloister (the remains of it have been preserved), while outside the town were the amphitheatre and cemeteries…

KRKA, a river in Dalmatia; springs out at the western foot of Dinara Mountain and flows into the sea near Sibenik; length 72.5 km. In the parts of the course where the Krka flows through marl soils, certain extensions are created (Arandelovac, etc.). In limestone it forms a narrow and deep canyon (up to 200 m), flowing over travertine barriers and creating waterfalls. In the upper course are two 10-m high waterfalls. At the entrance of the Krka into the Knin field is a waterfall called Veliki Buk (20 m). In the lower part of the course are the waterfalls: Bilusic (19.6 m), Prijen (15 m), Manojlovac (three waterfalls; 84.5 m), Roski Slap (25.5 m) and Skradinski Buk (37.5 m), the most beautiful of all. Between Roski Slap and Skradinski Buk is Visovac Lake (13 km long) with an islet Visovac.

SPLIT, the second largest city in Croatia and “the capital of Dalmatia” had gradually developed around the palace of the Roman emperor Diocletian, built more than 1700 years ago. From Diocletian’s cellars, Cathedral and the Temple of Jupiter to the Golden Gate (Porta aurea), across the Peristyle and the Market (Pjaca) to the sunny sea promenade (Riva) and further up the Marmont street, pass the fish-market and all the way to the Theatre: afternoon in Split brings you the atmosphere of a typical Mediterranean city. Guided city tour includes The Diocletian Palace, entrances to the St Dulmus cathedral, the treasury and the Diocletian’s cellars.

TROGIR was founded by Greek colonists from the Island of Vis in the 3rd century BC. On this Antique matrix lies the historical core of Trogir, which is the best-preserved Romanesque-Gothic complex not only in the Adriatic but in all of Central Europe. Trogir's medieval core, surrounded by walls, comprises a preserved castle and tower and a series of dwellings and palaces from the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods.

 

Trogir's grandest building is the church of St. Lawrence, whose main west portal is a masterpiece by Radovan, and the most significant work of the Romanesque-Gothic style in the country…On the way back to Split you should visit the Salona.
SALONA - The ruins of the ancient Salona, capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia, lie six kilometres north of Split in what is today the town of Solin. Favourable geographic position in the central part of the eastern coast of the Adriatic at the bottom of the well-sheltered Kastelanski Bay, along the delta of the Salon river (today the river Jadro), as well as good road links to the hinterland all contributed to the quick and unhindered development of the town. ......

STON is a small town in Dubrovnik – Neretva County, located at the south isthmus of the peninsula of Pelješac. Ston was a military fort of the Ragusan Republic whose defensive walls are notable feat of medieval architecture: there is an 890 meters long town wall and 5 km Great Wall outside the town, which is second in length on the planet.  The walls extend to Mali Ston, a smaller town on the northern side of the Pelješac isthmus.  Ston is well known for its mar culture, and its salt works which were highly coveted by both the Republic of Dubrovnik and the Ottoman Empire.
Mali Ston, small place just a kilometer away from Ston is oyster capital of Croatia. You have opportunity to see how the oysters are cultivated, how they are “picked” and taste them from the sea directly….

PELJEŠAC is situated in southern Dalmatia between Neretva bay in the north and Mali Ston bay eastward (between which is so called Little Sea). Mljet channel is south of Pelješac, and Pelješac channel on the western side. Through history it was called The Point of Ston (lat. Puncta Stagni, tal. Ponta di Stagno).
The modern name Pelješac is new, after a same named hill above Orebić. It is the second largest Peninsula in the Adriatic after the peninsula of Istria.

Pelješac peninsula is very convenient for the tours that will satisfy all types of tourists. Ston, Mali Ston, Viganj, Loviste, Trpanj and Orebic are the main resorts on the peninsula,  and each of them offers fine possibilities for the guests interested in natural beauties,  unspoiled environment and history sites and monuments.

City tour of KORČULA, known as the birth place of Marco Polo and, that was most probably founded by the Trojan hero Antenor. Today you will have the opportunity to experience its narrow streets, beautiful churches and magnificent palaces. Our walking tour of the old town will take you to the most interesting sites such as the Cathedral, the City Museum and the Bishop's Palace.

The town of Korčula is well known for Moreška – a traditional sword dance and drama that was common through the Mediterranean in 12th and 13th century, reaching Korčula in 16th century from Italy and Dubrovnik. The dance originated in Spain and is associated to the conflict between Moors and Christians Come to the Island of Korčula and not try their wines are the something that you must never do...

Island of MLJET is for many tourists is one of the Islands lost in the open sea. This is an island to which it is in reality difficult to reach. Do not let the landscape, which is mentioned in the stories of Ulysses, St Paul, the Benedictines and the Mediterranean she-bear, to remain undiscovered.

Mljet is one of the favourite places visited by couples in love, nature and history lovers, artists and many others...

Island of Mljet is one of the most beautiful and greenest islands of all Adriatic Islands.

Mljet National Park occupies its north-western part of Mljet Island. This is the area of 11th November 1960. Year was proclaimed a national park and represents the first institutional attempt to protect the original ecosystem in the Adriatic.

During this excursion you are going to visit NP Mljet, two salted lakes and Small Island St. Maria with Benediction Monastery from 12 century …

Once on the island most of the people coming back to visit it over and over again...

The more than thousand-year old of history of DUBROVNIK is reflected in every part of the City. A museum-city and a living stage, it is the ideal blend and present. Dubrovnik is a fascinating city which makes you fall in love with it and come back to it over and over again in pursuit of unique experiences.

The walking city tour of Dubrovnik should include: visits to the Franciscan Monastery with Europe's oldest pharmacy, the Cathedral with its famous Treasury and the Rector's Palace which once used to be the seat of the government in the Dubrovnik Republic. Our expert guide will lead you through the streets of the Old Town introducing you to the history and culture of this magnificent city. Other splendid buildings such as Onofrio's Fountain, St. Blaise's Church, Sponza Palace will be viewed along the way. This tour will reveal why Dubrovnik is often referred to as the «Pearl of the Adriatic».

Konavle is an area of special natural beauty and contrast: mountains and plants, hilly and karst, blue and green colors, or as Konavle inhabitants would say Gornja and Donja Banda (Upper side or down side of Konavle). The Konavle region stretches from Cavtat to the border with Montenegro. Two places in Konavle valley you should visit are Cavtat & Čilipi.

CAVTAT - a picturesque seaside resort town which was the ancient Roman City of Epidaurus. Located in a cove encompassed by two peninsulas: Rat and Sustjepan.

Over the years Cavtat has been a favorite destination for sailors and yacht enthusiasts. In fact, Edward the Eighth and Wallace Simpson came here during their honeymoon. Visit the Bogisić museum and the Racić mausoleum on the hillside where the famous Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrović has a grand display. Guided visit of Cavtat should include entrances in Mausoleum of family Račić, Museum of the famous painter Vlaho Bukovac …

ČILIPI – is the best place for encountering Konavle traditions. The central part of the area is a square surrounded by stone houses, where traditional folklore performances are held on Sundays (April – October). The local Konavle Museum in Čilipi, in an ambient of typical Konavle houses, presents the ethnological riches of Konavle, especially the Konavle national dress, textile craftsmanship and jewelry, weapons, embroidery …

Apart from a large number of reefs and rocks, the Elaphite, or Deer (Deer – Elafos in Greek), Islands group includes eight islands and five isles, of which only three are inhabited: Koločep, Lopud and Šipan.
The old legend of the islands is hidden in it's name-about the old Greeks hunting for deer and subsequently naming the islands the Deer islands.
Green islands, with gardens full of oranges and lemons and lovely seashore landscapes, charming and picturesque villages with harmonious architecture of summer manors; old seaman's houses and little votive churches.
These tine islands – the first two car-free are fantastic places to stay: you have all the sights of Dubrovnik on your doorstep but get to enjoy the peace and cleanliness of island life.
Visit could be organized as full day excursion from Dubrovnik by typical Dalmatian boat.