At the http://www.youtube.com/ValamarHotelsCroatia website you can see promotional video clips of most of our hotels starting today, and at the same address we will continue releasing new videos. Stay tuned:) One of the videos put on Youtube is Valamar Club Tamaris video: Popularity: 45% [?]
Thursday, February 21, 2008
The 16th century was Dubrovnik’s (Ragusa’s) maritime golden age. She owned more ships than ever before: ocean-going carracks and galleons and smaller coastal vessels for navigation within the Adriatic, in all employing some 5000 sailors, about a seventh of the Republic’s total population. In the first part of the 16th century, Dubrovniks fleet of ocean-going vessels [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
´Argosies with portly sail, the pageants of the sea’. So Shakespeare describes them in The Merchant of Venice, those charasteristic chubby wooden freighter ships that plied the Mediterranean in their heyday of the 15th and 16th centuries. The word Argosy is derived directly from the word Ragusa. Used initially to describe the Ragusan carrack, the largest [...]
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
If you regularly read our blog, you will remember that we mentioned four months ago Michael Palin’s stay in Croatia and the beginning of showing his travel documentary ‘Michael Palin’s New Europe’ on BBC. Take a look at what this famous Monty Phyton comedy group member, actor, journalist and travel writer has recorded on his [...]
Monday, February 11, 2008
The 25th art colony of Riviera Porec will take place on Wednesday, February 13, at 6 pm. The academic painters from Italy and Croatia have joined this year’s colony. They are: academic Ivan Kozaric, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Duje Juric, Nelio Sonego and Danino Bozic. We invite you to join us on Wednesday in Zuccato palace of Pucko otvoreno [...]
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Easter in Porec Experience Easter in the relaxed atmosphere of Hotel Pical in Porec, with an extensive Easter gastronomic offer. Package includes accommodation in double rooms for a 3 nights stay, daily rich buffet breakfast and dinner, early check in (10 am), Upgrade to a suite (subject to availability), welcome wine, rich Easter breakfast and dinner, 1.5 [...]
Monday, February 4, 2008
Teran was once wide-spread and the most important variety of dark grapes in Istrian vineyards. The first description of teran was given by Istrian agronomist dean Petar Stankovic in 1825. There are various biotypes that differ according to the size and shape of grape and berry, compactness, stem colour, quality, ripening period… There are two [...]
Friday, February 1, 2008
2008 is not proclaimed the year of Marin Drzic in vain and the events that took place in Dubrovnik in its very beginning prove it. According to the announcements, numerous events dedicated to remembrance of the person and work of this great Renaissance writer from Dubrovnik and Croatia are foreseen. From the last week we singled [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2008