Dubrovnik during wintertime is different than it is during summertimes, it is undiscovered and unknown. That is the real city of Dubrovnik, the city of history and science. Take a walk through Dubrovnik during wintertimes, with your city-guide in the group, or by yourself, or with someone special to you, and you will get to [...]
Thursday, November 27, 2008
The town of Krk can boast by such a building as it is a very rare phenomenon. This unusual floored little church is devoted to St. Quirinus, the protector of the town of Krk, and it dates from the 12th century, while on the ground floor there is St. Margareta church. Church is built from the [...]
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
About Istrian specialities, you had an opportunity to read in one of the previous posts, and my today’s recommendation will be, besides beautiful impressions, what to take home as a memory to a wonderful journey, or as a gift to some dear person of yours. BUKALETA Bukaleta is a clay pot, or a pither, most often painted [...]
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The celebration of St. Mauro holiday last Friday, on November 21, the town of Porec rounded up with the opening of multi-purpose sports hall Žatika. The beauty, at the very entrance into the town, is pride of all residents of Porec. At the hall, by the beginning of the next year, in January, the matches [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
„The Dukes of Krk“, later known as the Frankopans, are one of the most prominent Croatian noble family in history, which played an important role from the 11th to 16th century in not only part of Croatia, but larger. One can certainly say about them that they were the only family from Croatian islands [...]
Friday, November 21, 2008
Dubrovnik President, the best hotel under the management of Valamar in Dubrovnik, participated once again in the Touristic Flower action – the Quality for Croatia for the year 2007, winning award for the second best four-star hotel in Croatia. In the same action one year earlier, it was also awarded with a special acknowledgement for [...]
Thursday, November 20, 2008
The small island of Kosljun is a unique cultural and historical site that we recommend that you visit during a visit to Krk. It is situated on Puntarska draga, a little less than a kilometer from the village of Punat and only 200 meters from the coastline in the direction of Krk. It [...]
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Camp Marina, located on the east coast of the Istrian peninsula at Sveta Marina near Labin, is an ideal place for camping. While I have not tried it myself, I did not know what charms there are to a vacation in the camp. When you are nicely settled in, you can walk around [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
There is almost no municipal event that is not connected with our Hotel Valamar Diamant. Last weekend it was very exciting to be at the 9th Porec Car Rally, where the winners’ trophies were present at our hotel. The happy faces of the winning teams and the rally organizers filled the lobby bar. [...]
Monday, November 17, 2008
Valamar has recently ran the experimental video canal located on http://www.valamartv.com, as well as their own canal on Youtube featuring contents that are interesting not only to guests who stayed at some of Valamar hotels, apartments, or camp-sites but also to all those who wish to find out more about Adricatic destinations. Here, we [...]
Friday, November 14, 2008
Rome has the Colosseum, London has the Tower, and Dubrovnik, even though it is so much smaller, has something equally magnificent – the city walls of Dubrovnik… not only the trademark of Dubrovnik, but Croatia. The city walls of Dubrovnik are everyday attraction during the whole year, and are certainly worth admiring and walking. A distinguished [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
While exploring of the island of Krk, you will probably come across many inscriptions engraved in stone, written in some sort of “strange” script. Well, this script is not strange; moreover, this is Glagolitic script, a script that was used back in 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius. We distinguish between round Glagolitsa, used in [...]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The most influential Dutch, and one of the biggest European auto-clubs, ANWB, has nominated our Camping Lanterna in Porec for the ”ANWB campsite of the year 2009” award, in the category ”The most attractive campsite on the beach.”
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Once you arrive to Rabac and settle comfortably in one of our hotels, I would recommend a walk along the beach or for those of adventurous spirit, trekking while enjoying beautiful scenery. When walking towards centre of Rabac, you will see a building on the rocks close to the sea on the other side of [...]
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Sun, sea, music and dance are my joys of life, but cars, motors and races are my secret love. I am regular visitor at all rallies in Porec. This spring, at the end of April, Motorshow was organized at the town parking area in Porec. How it was great! Smell of octanes, motor [...]
Monday, November 10, 2008
Lovrijenac is the most impressive and the highest fort of Dubrovnik, a magnificent fortification, often referred to in literature as the Gibraltar of Dubrovnik. The monumental fort rises above 37 meters high rock. It changed roles in the course of history. The main purpose of its construction was defense, and the main idea was to [...]
Friday, November 7, 2008
On Friday, October 31, 2008 the Dubrovnik „Factory Club“ was festively opened, thus enriching Dubrovnik’s night life. On the occasion Dubrovnik hosted an electronic music star, whose performances have been delighting everyone present for many long years. His artistic name is Darren Emerson whom you might know as a former member of the duo „Underworld“. [...]
Thursday, November 6, 2008
They say that you put your finger in the sea and you are linked to the entire world. And if find yourself on Croatia’s largest island, you really are linked to the whole world. By sea, by air (Rijeka Airport is situated on the island of Krk), and by land or by the [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
The summer and summer story are over. We will continue our story in the autumn, with ripe fruits, grape-gathering in the vineyards, and searching for truffles. The atmosphere is relaxing, the nature changes its green colour into a palette of copper hues and the colour of very old gold. Everything is full of fragrances and [...]
Monday, November 3, 2008
Romualdo from Ravena was an interesting persona. Sometime around the beginning of the last century, around 1000 A.D., he came to Istria and built a monastery of St. Mihovil near village Kloštar in the vicinity of Lim bay. There were many tales about Romualdo among the people. When this former Benedictine arrived to Istria, he [...]
Marketing Communication Manager at Riviera Poreč d.d.. 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…
Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator at Rabac d.d.. On Valamar blog, she writes about subjects related to Rabac, town she has private and business relations to, town where she acquired her first experiences related to tourism as a high-school girl.
Sales officer at Zlatni otok d.d.. Believe it or not, Duška was born the same day the Krk Bridge was open. As the first baby to cross the Krk Bridge, she has had an unbroken bond with her “golden island” Krk, where she is going to keep us posted from.
Marketing officer at company Babin Kuk d.d. Nike is from Dubrovnik, she speaks three languages, and she started her carrier at hospitality desk in Dubrovnik President Hotel. Naturally, on Valamar blog, she writes about things related to her town Dubrovnik. 
External Marketing Associate at Valamar, and the only male member of Valamar blog :). Tomislav has the longest seniority in the quintet, and the number of texts at Valamar blog he is responsible for, is slowly reaching 150...
Friday, November 28, 2008