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Sinjska Alka is a 300 year old knights’ tournament in Sinj and honey making trade from region of northern Croatia have been added recently to UNESCO’s delegate list of non-material cultural heritage of mankind. Also, the musical expression called “ojkanje” was added to UNESCO list of rare immaterial cultural heritage which requires urgent protection. Sinjska [...]

Kvarner is a region that has been growing tourism for more than a decade due to its diversity ranging from colorful vegetation, pleasant climatic conditions, combination of mountains, islands and coastal area and splendid architecture and amazing culture. It was a winter and summer resort of members of Habsburg dynasty, that developed the amazing tourist [...]

Dolina Neretve (Neretva Valley, valley of river Neretva), which is also called ‘mandarin valley’ is the best place to enjoy your holidays in Croatia and you will receive a warm welcome from hospitable locals of Komin, Opuzen, Metkovic and other areas. In whole region of Neretva, there are approximately 1.3 million mandarin seedlings that yield [...]

CROATIA has 7 UNESCO protected world cultural heritage sites and 7 UNESCO protected world cultural heritage traditions, making it first in Europe and fourth in the world. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The music in the video are traditional and unique Croatian “klapa” songs. First is “Vilo Moja” and second [...]

For more than 400 years on Hvar, parishioners from the central part of the island have participated in the great ‘Following the Cross’ procession. Beginning on Good Thursday, mass is simultaneously held in the six parishes of Jelsa, Pitve, Vrisnik, Svirče, Vrbanj and Vrboska. The procession then begins, following a 25-kilometer course into the early [...]

Franjo Vinkovic who is a blacksmith from Dakovo is one of the persons who have their own firm in Croatia and 12 million Koreans who regularly watch the South Korean TV station EBS from Seoul will meet Franjo in November. The purpose of their meeting is to actually authenticate his skills on the blacksmith’s fire [...]

UNESCO “Man & Biosphere” program is helping the creation of biosphere reserves. The Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere is an example of such a reserve formed in agreement between Croatia & Hungary. So what’s a Biosphere Reserve? It is an ecological area with 3 key priorities: Protection of natural assets Encourage sustainable ecological development and Stimulate scientific research [...]