The programme of Summer manifestations is currently underway in the city of Krk, a performing arts and music manifestation with a long and rich tradition. In fact, what we are talking about is one of the oldest happenings of this kind on the whole Adriatic coast. Last year, the Krk Summer Manifestations celebrated it’s 50th [...]
Monday, July 30, 2007
“Fecite iustitiam et dabo pacem in finibus vestris” or translated, “Be fair and I will bring peace to your city”. This is a famous quotation from the Gospel inscribed on the top of the Pentagonal Tower in Porec, in an open book held by the Venetian symbol, a lion with wings. The Pentagonal Tower in [...]
Friday, July 27, 2007
In the last few posts we have been announcing events which we think one should visit during their stay in Istria. But, the best is yet to come Namely, now is the peak of the summer season so the great number of events and activities taking place all around Istria don’t come as surprise [...]
Thursday, July 26, 2007
In the right column we have inserted 5 current offers in Valamar objects. Since the web is our direct channel for the sale of accomodationn facilities, we would like to point out the best rate guarantee policy, respectively lowest price guarantee, what actually means that if you, on some other website, for the accomodation facility [...]
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
You might have noticed that in the last 30 days, that is how old this blog is, our posts concentrated mostly on various themes and information in reference to our four destinations. Porec, Dubrovnik, Rabac and Krk will further… as well as everything you can find and that goes on there…, keep the leading role [...]
Monday, July 23, 2007
Today is the opening day of the ninth Motovun Film Festival that will last from July 23rd until 27rd. It is a unique cultural event taking place every year in Istria and Croatia that actually started off as a little project of a group of enthousiasts, whereas it turned out to become a well-known European [...]
Thursday, July 19, 2007
In the previously released posts in the category Rabac we talked about tourist facilities and beaches in Rabac, we even shortly mentioned the Rabac Summer Festival as an event that attracts a great number of visitors, fans of electronic music. This year Rabac Summer Festival will last for three days, from July 27th until July [...]
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Pula Film Festival is taking place in the Pula amphitheater and it is to last until July 21st. In a week’s time, i.e. July 23rd, the second great Istrian film event is starting - Motovun Film Festival. We will say something more on Motovun next week, and now shortly on the current festival in Pula. [...]
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
In this post we bring to you a location that is definitely worth visiting during your stay on the island of Krk. It is an unusual combination of two apparently incompatible things, and we should also mention that the place we are presenting in this post located in the immediate vicinity of our facilities - [...]
Monday, July 16, 2007
The Revelin fortress is one of the most important Dubrovnik sights. Built in the middle of the XVI century with the purpose of defending the city, and it was, historically speaking, a pretty turbulent period, an age when in Dubrovnik threat of Venice attack was felt once again. The original project of the Revelin fortress [...]
Friday, July 13, 2007
This Friday, as already announced in the post “Istria and an experience“, is reserved for a post on Istria. As the title suggests, today we will give you an insight into one of the many facets of the biggest Adriatic pensinula, the good-wine facet. When talking about Istria and its vineyards, wine sorts, wine roads…, [...]
Thursday, July 12, 2007
We started this week with a video, and today we will round up this week’s “trilogy“ with a panoramic video of Brijuni, an archipelago and national park situated vis-à-vis the Southwestern part of the Istrian peninsula, opposite Fažana. This video was taken the same day as the video on Pore? that we released yesterday. Brijuni in [...]
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
This is our first video on the blog, taken by a friend of mine during the panoramic flight over the West coast of Istria in a little Cessna. In this video the leading role is given to Porec, the recording is a bit “shaky“, but clear enough. Fear not, after all, the plane didn’t crush [...]
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
In this video on Istria and Kvarner, courtesy of the Croatian Tourist Bord, our destinations Pore?, Rabac and Krk are mentioned. We have decided to freshen up our blog with multimedia contents and right now I am preparing a panoramic video of Pore? that I’ll put on the blog tomorrow as soon as I upload [...]
Monday, July 9, 2007
The Dubrovnik Libertas Film Festival ended a week ago and tomorrow another big Dubrovnik summer season event is scheduled to start tomorrow – the Dubrovnik Summer Games. This cultural spectacle is being held for the 58th year in a row, and it will last from 10th of July to 25th of August. As in the [...]
Sunday, July 8, 2007
We will try to update the Valamar blog as regularly as possible with the events that we think are definitely worth a visit during your stay in our country. Today we give you Porec with its musical events, and tomorrow we will present Dubrovnik. In our first posts about Porec, it has already been mentioned that [...]
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
In my post “The flavours of our destinations 1: The island of Krk”, I wrote a bit about the flavours of our biggest island. Among others, I dedicated a few sentences to the past times, when the inhabitants of Krk lived a far more modest life than today Istria has a similar story. When you [...]
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
What is your impression of Istria? What does it mean to you? What is the first thing you think of when you hear the word „Istria“? While I was spending my August Sunday morning drinking coffee in one of our tourist destinations on the western Istrian coast, I heard two young girls, tourist workers, asking [...]
Monday, July 2, 2007
Let us start this week with one corporate post on Valamar’s blog. We wanted to make a brief presentation of a cooperation we consider very significant in the framework of what we are involved in as a company managing tourist capacities. For those tourists who are not acquainted with our business, here is brief info: [...]
Marketing Specialist in Riviera Poreč Inc. Poreč is Nives’s birthplace, and she has longtime experience in tourism. She has been working at Riviera since 1996, and she writes about events and curiosities of her home town on Valamar blog…
Associate in Marketing in Rabac Inc. On Valamar blog, she writes about subjects related to Rabac, the town she has private and business relations already 25 years. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Rijeka and fluently speaks three foreign languages…
Marketing officer at company Dubrovnik-Babin kuk Inc. Nike is from Dubrovnik, she speaks three languages, and she started her carrier at hospitality desk in Valamar Dubrovnik President Hotel. Naturally, on Valamar blog, she writes about things related to her town Dubrovnik…
Lorena, a sales and marketing officer at Zlatni otok Inc., was born in a small town of Smokvica near Novi Vinodolski and she is 27. With this blog, she will regularly inform us about interesting things and events on the “golden island” (zlatni otok) of Krk…
Tuesday, July 31, 2007