Today we start with a new heading of posts under the name “3 interesting facts” where we will from time to time bring three interesting facts related to our destinations and regions. In the first part we have singled out the following facts relating to Istria: (1) Did you know that also Istria has its own [...]
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
It is time to announce one more big concert that will take place in the Pula Arena. After a few big names that have performed here during the Histria festival 2007, by this I mean primarily Norah Jones and the music spectacle “directed by” the Dalmatian music duo - Gibonni and Oliver, Arena will on [...]
Monday, August 27, 2007
An event that has since years been attracting more and more fans of swimming, water-polo and jetski, the Porec dolphin, will take place also this year. It will be its eight edition, and the central event of this manifestation will be held on next Saturday (September 1st). It is a recreative swimming marathon that addresses not [...]
Friday, August 24, 2007
We have added 12 new photographs (Porec and Labin) on the Valamar channel on flickr. Porec: Labin: Popularity: 51% [?]
Thursday, August 23, 2007
During your stay in Rabac on of the must-dos is the visit to the near-by town of Labin, situated on a hill, 320 m above Rabac. Labin is a little town perfect for exploring, and in today’s post we present three locations: 1. Loggia of Labin (Labinska loža) – Loggias are something authentic for small Istrian [...]
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Can you imagine how much patience, strength, concentration, skill and precision is necessary to build a pyramid? Well.., the only ones who could provide you an answer to that question are the old Egyptians whose architectural skills take credit for those everlasting buildings that the whole world has been admiring for centuries now. Although we [...]
Monday, August 20, 2007
In the last text of the category Krk we talked about the “Sommer manifestations in Krk”, a manifestation with almost the oldest tradition on the Adria. Within the scope of the Sommer manifestations many interesting events have already taken place on Krk this year, and parallel to this festival there are numerous cultural, entertaining and [...]
Friday, August 17, 2007
Just as we have announced, every Friday we will in the right column insert new, current offers in the Valamar objects. This week we bring you the Last minute offer for our two objects in Pore? and Rabac. - First offer refers to the Valamar Crystal Hotel**** Pore?, incl. accomodation in single and double bedroom with half-board [...]
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Without a drop of exaggeration we can say that Dubrovnik has in these days become a true world’s multicultural crossing point. There is so much going on in the town that it’s simply impossible to include it all in just one post. We have on several occasions written about the central cultural event of the [...]
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
In the posts on the Euphrasian basilica 1 and 2 we wrote about the most significant and best preserved early Christian edifice on the whole Meditteranean – the Porec Euphrasiana. Today’s text turns to last week’s presentations of a book that presents a great contribution to the study of this ancient edifice in Porec. Authors [...]
Monday, August 13, 2007
Seven days of Vivaldi in Istria Seven Istrian towns will in the period between August 12th and 19th have the privilege to enjoy seven performances of Vivaldi’s “4 seasons” by the Italian chamber orchestra ‘Venezia Concerto’. In Porec the concert will take place on Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15th, on [...]
Friday, August 10, 2007
‘Drunken night 1918. ‘ – premiere of the Ulysses Theatre Today and tomorrow – on August 10th and 11th, the production ‘Drunken night 1918.’ will have its first run in performance of the Ulysses Theatre on the Brijuni islands. The production is based on the short story ‘Drunken November night 1918.’ by the bard of Croatian [...]
Thursday, August 9, 2007
We opened our own channel on flickr (slideshow) and we will be adding photographs of our destinations and objects. In the “first episode” we have for you a few images of Rabac: Popularity: 22% [?]
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
A lot of events are currently going on in Porec. Yesterday we announced the Street Art Festival, and today we have something for the lovers of visual arts and classical music. Concerts in Basilica When: until the end of August. The Euphrasian Basilica has been for the past 46 summers hosting the classical music concerts and for the [...]
Monday, August 6, 2007
In the period from 7th till 14th August, all the streets and squares of the old part of the town of Porec will be animated by street artists from all over the world. What is going on is the 7th Street Art Festival and during the eight days of the duration of the Festival, [...]
Friday, August 3, 2007
The last three days of Dubrovnik Summer Festival, whose beginning we announced on our blog, were dedicated to the notorious Dubrovnik comedian, Marin Držic. The show “Dum Marinu u pohode” (“Visiting Father Marin”) was a kind of introductory event to the celebration of 500th anniversary of the birth of Marin Držic. The show was put [...]
Thursday, August 2, 2007
What is it that is so mystic and attractive in an underground, at first sight awkward plant looking like potato, that the people are willing to spend a fortune and proclaim it „king of the gastronomy“? Which one is better – the white one or the black one? What exactly are truffles in the culinary [...]
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Who exactly were Histris and what was their historic role? Histris were a tribe which had settled on the Istrian peninsula in the 2nd century b.C.. The historians mostly mention them in context of wars led against the Romans, inevitable events considering the historic circumstances. A few written evidences exist on the Histris tribe and [...]
Thursday, August 30, 2007