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Our Pope

John Paul II (in Croatia we call him Ivan Pavao) is considered to be our pope, Croat catholics loved him alot. There are number of statues to John Paul II, all over Croatia, remembering his visits to our country. This one in Trsat was made after he visited the sanctuary of Virgin Mary.

Gospe trsatska

Northern Velebit NP

Rare are the regions, if they exist at all, capable of supplying man's senses and enriching him with peace and strength such as the Premuzic Trail crossing the North Velebit National Park. It is an approximately 50 km long mountaineering tourist trail, in many aspects without peer in Croatia and abroad.

Northern Velebit NP

The National Park of Northern Velebit containing many specific protected plant and animal species.

Northern Velebit NP

One walks into a nature park, inside which there is a national park, and within the national park there is a strict nature reservation or a forest vegetation reservation.

Northern Velebit NP

There are fascinating space pictures here, the ear is saturated with the twittering of birds, the sense of smell permeated with aromatic and aerosol-enriched air, and there is more of it....

Northern Velebit NP

The construction of the trail permitted researchers and mountain climbers an easier access to the most valuable relief and vegetarian parts of the mountain, classified, in 1978, by the UNESCO Charter as the world's wildlife refuge of the biosphere, proclaimed, in 1981, by the Senate Decree as a Nature Park, and the northern and middle parts of Velebit earmarked and protected in the category of National Park, in 1999.

Northern Velebit NP

The opart of the Trail crossing the mid-Velebit passes mostly the zones of coastal slopes, which are not as rich in relief and vegetation sights, however, the greatest part of this journey is enchanced by the unique panorama of the islands Rab, Pag, Cres and Losinj.