Croatia - basic facts
— April 01, 2007.
Official name: Republic of Croatia
Official language: Croatian
Official script: Latin
Official currency: Kuna (kn)
Population: 4,437,460 (according to the 2001 census)
Croatia on the UNESCO list of cultural heritage
— April 01, 2007.
Although small in size, Croatia is a real treasury of world-recognized riches. Namely, on its territory, the country preserves as many as five cultural heritage jewels and one natural heritage pearl protected by UNESCO.
Lubenice, a place where memories are born
— April 01, 2007.
Time: Late fall.
Time of day: Just before sunset.
Gear: Nothing other than desire.
Atmosphere: Before the rain, dark clouds, damp, cool, windy...
Location: Lubenice, Cres Island, Croatia.
People present: You are alone.
Four millennia of the Ston saltpan - the oldest saltpan in Europe
— April 01, 2007.
Chance travelers or local or foreign tourists who find themselves in Ston will surely be attracted by the long walls surrounding the city, the "Chinese wall of the Mediterranean", and the shellfish clusters in the Mali Ston Bay. And, if they continue further along the Pelješac Peninsula, they will pass by salt fields without even realizing that they are in the vicinity of the oldest saltpan in Europe, a four-millennia-old saltpan.
Natural environment of Croatia
— April 01, 2006.
Can it be possible that a small country has on its territory 8 national parks, 10 nature parks and 2 strict reserves, 1,185 islands, solitary rocks and reefs... and all that on a mere 56,542 km2 of land surface area and a territorial sea area of 31,067 km2?
The gastronomic delights of Croatia
— April 01, 2006.
This is a time when the whole world is looking for quick, cheap and attractive ways of packaging fast food to satisfy the appetites of busy people with too little time to eat a healthy, tempting and tasty snack.
Croatian lighthouses - Alone in the big blue
— April 01, 2006.
Do you sometimes wish to get away from it all? Far away from everyone, from work, crowds, civilisation, and far away from your usual rhythm of life? Do you sometimes wish to be someone else and live some place else, with different concerns, horizons, feelings and scents around you?
