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General Info about Croatia
Geographical position: Croatia extends from the furthest eastern edges of the Alps in the north-west to the Pannonian lowlands and the banks of the Danube in the east; its central region is covered by the Dinara mountain range, and its southern parts extend to the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Surface: [...]
Read More >>Climate in Croatia
Croatia has three climate zones; the prevailing climate in the country’s interior is moderately rainy; on the highest peaks, a forest climate with snow falls, while the areas along the Adriatic coast have a pleasantly mild Mediterranean climate with a large number of sunny days; summers are dry and hot, [...]
Read More >>Adriatic Sea
The Adriatic sea got its name from an ancient port of the same name. The Adriatic spans from the Balkan to the Apennine peninsula. The part belonging to the Republic of Croatia is the eastcoast which extends all the way from Prevlaka in the south to cape Savudrija in the [...]
Read More >>Anima Croatica
Our folk songs, our circle-come-wheel dances (kolo), row dances (tanac) and pair dances (ples), endure in the sound and movement of the people, mostly as a need, as an awareness of the past, as an elucidation of identity. That is why these folk, even in the harshest times of their [...]
Read More >>Folklor
In all its elements folk music has ever been a companion to life and its changes, and so it was that a folk singer therefore assumed the role of both an interpreter and commentator of his times and of people's experience. Diversities which developed in Croatian folk music are very [...]
Read More >>Klape
And this Folk of Croatia be the foremother of its songs, and the Language and the ways in which it is spoken by the Folk be their forefather, and so it be that the soul of songs and their language have been living in centuries-old union. Here, history takes a [...]
Read More >>Did you know?
That you can see forests, mountains, plains, the sea and Karst in Croatia without crossing more than a hundred kilometres. That Croatia has one of the most preserved natural environments in Europe. That Croatia is one of the few countries on the old continent that provides its citizens with potable water via [...]
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