The story of oysters as a shellfish with aphrodisiac characteristics is known from long ago, when noblemen of that time sampled them with pleasure at the Renaissance banquets of the Dubrovnik aristocracy. The legend of the magical characteristics of this shellfish was also no secret to Austrian emperors, who frequently enjoyed it on their menus. [...]
Thursday, February 26, 2009
I want to introduce you to another special feature of the island of Krk, the Biserujak Cave, which I recommend to you while touring the island. The Biserujak Cave, or Vitezic’s Cave, is located about 200 meters from the village of Rudina, which can be reached from the direction of Cizici and the bay [...]
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Forget everyday worries and stress, pack your luggage and spend a memorable week-end in Rabac in May. Welcoming you will be beautiful landscape, picturesque walkways, stay in comfortable and modernly equipped rooms, polite and friendly personnel and rich gastronomic offer. It might appear to you premature to think about where to spend your holiday. Now [...]
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The new Zatika sports arena, opened just three months ago, was host in January to top national handball teams during the 21st World Handball Championships. Playing in Porec were the teams of the tournament’s Group D: Brazil, Denmark, Egypt, Norway, Saudi Arabia and Serbia, and the teams facing off in the President’s Cup: Tunisia, Algeria [...]
Friday, February 20, 2009
Dubrovnik enters the tourist year of 2009 with even better air connections with the world. Among nine new routes of the low-budget EasyJet air companies, in 2009 even four of them are to Dubrovnik. EasyJet will, so, fly from London to Dubrovnik four times a week, from Berlin three times a week, from [...]
Thursday, February 19, 2009
The end of this year’s carnival follies in Croatia is approaching. The pinnacle of the carnival season will be the international carnival parade that will be held on Sunday, February 22nd, in Rijeka. This 26th International Rijeka Carnival will constitute the final demonstration of all the traditional masquerades, carnival groups and floats. During this march, [...]
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Czech tour operator Vitkovice Tours has presented its 2008 first class service award to our Valamar Bellevue hotel in Rabac at the recent Holiday World 2009 tourism industry fair in Prague. The first class service awards for the best Adriatic hotels are awarded on the basis of guest and Vitkovice Tours expert evaluations. A total [...]
Monday, February 16, 2009
These days we can realise our childhood dreams, we can be a chimney sweep, princess or whatever else we desire. That’s right, it’s that time of the year when masked revellers rule cities throughout the year. So too is the case in our coastal cities and towns. On Saturday, 21 February, Porec is preparing a [...]
Friday, February 13, 2009
“Our forefathers acted crazy and so too can we“ is a saying that is heard in Dubrovnik throughout February during the carnival festivities, a time when everything goes, people become someone else or show their real face… Numerous transcripts and illustrations bear witness to the masquerading tradition in Dubrovnik. In the seventies of the past century [...]
Friday, February 13, 2009
That Krk has not fallen into a winter sleep has been attested to by the latest events: a course in gothic sword fighting. From the 10th to the 15th of February a sword fighting school was held in Krk, run by the knight Marko from the house of Aureus Unicornis. All those interested can [...]
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The day of those in love or St. Valentine’s Day is traditionally celebrated on the 14th of February. Do you know how this day came to be celebrated as the day of love? The story reaches way back in history, to the times of the Romans, the Emperor Claudius II, when Christianity was still a [...]
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
In my last post I introduced you to the Ucka Mountain, and today I will introduce you with Cicarija, another mountain in the magic land of Istria. Cicarija is located to the North-East of Buzet, and the area is covered with pastures and forests. It is interesting that those forests supplied Venice with wood for [...]
Friday, February 6, 2009
The City of Dubrovnik has decided to make a gift to its residents and visitors of something really special and until now unheard of in our city. Kandelora (Candlemas), or for those less acquainted with this day, 2 February 2009, the eve of the Feast day of St. Vlaho, was the formal opening of [...]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
When Porec is mentioned, we immediately think of the Sun, the sea, the beaches and parties on summer terraces. You will surely be interested in what goes on in Porec in the wintertime… The multimedia club Atelier, located in the centre of Porec, gathers various performers at weekends, some of them well and some of them [...]
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…
Friday, February 27, 2009