"MY CROATIA" Top 5 Page for this destination Croatia by croisbeauty

Official name: Republic of Croatia
Official language: Croatian
Alphabet: Latin
Currency: kuna (100 lipa), 1 Euro = aprox. 7,35 kuna

GENERAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL DATA

Surface Area: 56.543 km2
Territorial waters: 31.067 km2
Population: 4.500.000
Capital: Zagreb, 900.000 inhabitants
Coastline: 5.835 km, of which 4.058 km islands, cliffs and reefs
Number of islands, cliffs and reefs: 1.185
Highest peak: Dinara 1.831 meters above sea-level

NATIONAL PARKS

BRIJUNI - a group of islets at the west coast of Istria; preserved Mediterranean vegetation, zoo in the nature, cultural heritage of Antiquity.
Information: phone 00385/052/525-888, E-mail: np-brijuni@pu.tel.hr

KORNATI - the most indented group of islands in the Mediterranean, consisting of 140 uninhabited islands, islets and cliffs, a true labyrinth of sea and stone.
Information: phone 00385/022/434-662, E-mail: np-kornati@si.tel.hr

KRKA - the most beautiful karstis river of Croatia; deep canyons cut into calciferous plateaus; lakes; among the multitude of waterfalls, Skradinski Buk and Ro?ki Slap are the most prominent. Between them is the islet of Visovac, with a Franciscan monastery (the picture above is a part of NP Krka).
Information: phone 00385/022/217-720, E-mail: turizam.npk@npkrka.hr

MLJET - an island southwest of Dubrovnik; the western part of the island is a National Park with two deep bays called lakes because of their very narrow connection to the open sea. Valuable Antigue monuments and a Benedictine monastery from the 12th century on the islet in the middle of the lake-bay.
Information: phone 00385/020/744-058

PAKLENICA - National park on the southern side of the biggest mountainous massif of Croatia, Velebit, running from highest peaks to the sea; two impressive canyons, Velika Paklenica and Mala Paklenica; a multitude of unusual karstic relief forms, a number of caves, rich and diverse flora and fauna.
Information: phone 00385/023/369-155

PLITVI?KA JEZERA - The most beautiful and the best known Croatian national park, a part of UNESCO's World Heritage, situated next to the main road linking Zagreb to Dalmatia; 16 small lakes are interconnected by waterfalls naturally created by traventine deposits, thick woods of beech tees and fir, oartly in the form of a primeval forrest, numerous species of animals (including brown bear); transportation with special panoramic vehicles and electric boats is organized for visitors.
Information: phone 00385/053/751-015

RISNJAK - wooded mountains massif to the north of Rijeka, encompasses the sprong area of the river Kupa; numerous species of flora nad fauna are gathered within a small area, including brown bear, lynx chamois, deer, snake eagle.
Information: phone 00385/051/836 -133

NORTH VELEBIT - due to its natural beauty is the most valuable and the most attractive peak part of Velebit.
Information: phone 00385/053/574687

TOURISM

Croatia offers accommodations in numerous hotels, apartment settlements, private rooms, apartments and campgrounds.
- Nautical tourism: there are more than 50 marinas and in a bigger ones it's possible to rent yacht
- Naturism: a number of naturist camps with long traditions (The best in Istria: Umag, Vrsar, Medulin.
- Hunting tourism: a long tradition of it for deer, boars, martens, foxes, hares, wild geese and ducks, bear in Lika , chamois and mouflons in Dalmatia.
- Youth tourism: there are HOSTELS in Dubrovnik, Kor?ula, Pula, Punat on island Krk, ?ibenik, Zadar and Zagreb. Croatian YHA 00385/01/4829-296.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Travel documents
- a passport or some of other identification document acknowledged by international agreement. Tourists may stay for up to three months.

Customs
- foreign currency is brought and taken out freely; domestic currency up to 2.000 kuna
- valuable professional and technical equipment must be declared at the border
- for animals a veterinary certificate is neededs*

Pula, inside the arena

Have you ever been to Croatia? No, not yet, listen then what spoke George Bernard Shaw: "The gods wanted to crown their creation and on the last day they turned tears, stars and the sea breeze into the isles of Kornati".
Thus spoke G.B.Shaw, refering to the largest archipelago in the Mediterranean with its 140 islands, islets and reefs.

Zadar, crkva sv. Donata

One of the most beautiful love stories of the last century progressed towards its denouement here. The Dalmatian escape of the British sovereign, Edward VIII and the American divorce Wallis Simpson caused a stir in the worlds of politics and fashion. A love more important than the crown turned the attention of the British and American press to the spot where the lovers chose to stay, to the beautiful Dalmatia.