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Archive | March, 2010

Wine Festival in Gracišce

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

It seems that winter just ended and the largest Christian Easter holiday is already drawing near. The special offer for our guests for the Easter holidays includes the “Easter in Rabac” package which will enable the guests to spend Easter in a pleasant atmosphere with a rich Easter culinary offer and a welcoming package: the [...]

Dance with the stars in the Valamar Diamant Hotel

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The well-known international Latin dance champions Alice Guschelbauer and Balázs Ekker, stars of the Austrian TV show “Dancing with the stars” are arriving to Porec. They will dance with the fans of the hot Latin rhythms for the first time at the Valamar Diamant Hotel on 14 April. You can come and spend your holiday with your [...]

Mediterranean Fair of Healthy Food and Medicinal Herbs in Dubrovnik

Friday, March 26, 2010

Mediterranean Fair of Healthy Food and Medicinal Herbs will take place from 9 to 11 April in Dubrovnik, traditionally at Babin kuk, and for the first time in the newly-opened Valamar Lacroma Resort Hotel. The organizers have prepared a series of educational round table discussions, lectures, presentations and attractive cultural, entertainment and gastronomic events. With the objective [...]

Allegro and Miramar Hotels welcome the new season with a new look

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

With the arrival of spring the Valamar facilities in Rabac have slowly started opening its door and welcoming guests. The first hotel was opened on 20 March. It is the Allegro Hotel (ex Castor) which was open a week before the planned date, because of the high number of stays and the investments which were [...]

Porec campsites and hotels – opening dates

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Valamar will welcome its guests and open most of its facilities in Porec at the end of March, i.e. at the beginning of April, right before the Easter holidays. Valamar Club Tamaris**** will welcome its guests on 27 March, the day when the Residence Diamant apartments will open its door as well. The Pical Hotel opened [...]

Oyster Festivity in Dubrovnik

Friday, March 19, 2010

The story about the oyster as a shell with aphrodisiac features has been well-known from the ancient times when it was tasted with great pleasure by the Renaissance Dubrovnik noblemen during the feasts. The legend about its magical features was no secret to the Austrian emperors either. They often enjoyed eating it. The oyster we [...]

Winners Announcement of photo contest “I love camping”

Thursday, March 18, 2010

We would like to thank you for participation in the photo contest and all photos that you have sent. We are extremely pleased with the number and quality of the submitted photos and we will certainly use some of them in our future marketing activities. In accordance with the rules of photo contest, all guests [...]

Try the indigenous Krk cookies - imbrijagoni

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Within the wide range of Krk specialties and delicacies you will find the particularly interesting old and forgotten recipes which the caterers nowadays serve as a top quality tourist offer one must experience. The forgotten tastes from our past still seem to find their way to people who enjoy in them and use as means [...]

Asparagus - the spring fairy

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Spring is right around the corner and I can’t wait for it to come! I love the spring, sun, blossoming trees and the one and only asparagus – the spring fairy. The name “asparagus” comes from the Greek word “asparagus”, meaning sprout. This is a very healthy plant. You can often read that asparagus are [...]

Easter with Valamar

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Dyeing the Easter eggs, eating the traditional Easter pastry (pinca), young onions, ham, etc… Delicious! When we think of that we have the Easter holiday in mind. The time when children are happy, the eggs are dyed and then joyfully cracked; a tradition even our grandmothers and grandfathers remember. The English would say. “Home is [...]

Dubrovnik enters the new season with the renovated airport, cable car and Gruž port

Friday, March 12, 2010

The newly renovated Dubrovnik cable car, one of the best known tourist attractions back in the period from 1969 to the beginning of the 1990s, which used to transport up to two and a half million passengers a year and was destroyed during the Croatian War of Independence, will be open for public at the [...]

Visit the Vinodol Eyes (Oci Vinodola) panoramic site

Thursday, March 11, 2010

There are six new panoramic sites, ideal destinations for an active holiday, in the surrounding area of the town of Novi Vinodolski, only 20 minutes from the sea. They were hand-built in stone and they will take your breath away. The Vinodol Eyes panoramic sites, as they are called, attract more and more cyclists, mountain [...]

Discover the Rabac underwater world

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The sea in Rabac is incredibly clear and it is rarely any deeper than 70 meters, what makes it ideal for diving tourism. Various locations include shipwrecks which will leave you in awe, reefs screaming with colours, exciting rocks and a colourful underwater world. Here in Rabac and the  camping Marina you will find the Scuba diving [...]

Spring of sports in Istria

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Join the sports atmosphere in Porec. We announce a series of interesting sports events. The 38th Istrian Riviera is a tennis tournament which will take place from 11 to 21 March in the town of Porec. This tournament is an opportunity for young tennis players from all over the world to start gathering their first ATP [...]

Cycling

Friday, March 5, 2010

Spring and the nice weather that comes with it are right around the corner and we can sense that. At this time of year you can take your bicycles out in the fresh air and let them take you wherever they want. All bicycle fans simply must visit Rabac, settle into one of our hotels [...]

Days of Francophony and French culture in Rijeka

Thursday, March 4, 2010

The French-Croatian Friendship Society “Alliance Francaise Rijeka” has been gathering people who love and nurture the French language and culture in order to contribute to the expansion of the French language and culture and the improvement of the relations between France and Croatia in the town of Rijeka, but in the wider area as well. The [...]

27th Painting Colony in Porec

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Last year in September, St. Nikola’s Island near Porec welcomed artists from Slovenia, Italy, Austria and Croatia. The 27th painting colony selector Danino Božic gathered the following academic painters: Dare Birsa, Bojan Bensa, Tomislav Brajnovic, Mario Dalpra, Richard Kaplenig, Dušan Kirbiš and Silvestro Lodi. Riviera Porec founded the painting colony in 1983, on its thirtieth anniversary. [...]

Join The Naturism-Adriatic Community!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

If you are looking for advice about naturism or naturist destinations, then look no further. Why join? If you are a naturist and love Croatia then there are many good reasons to join a community of individuals sharing a common lifestyle! There are so many beaches and resorts in Croatia, where it is possible to be nudist [...]

Women’s day in Valamar Lacroma

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

International Women’s Day is celebrated every year on 8 March. The economic, political and social accomplishments made by women are celebrated on that day. The first Women’s Day was marked on 28 February 1909 in the USA. There is one question which remains unanswered and troubles most men even today: which present to choose for her [...]

  • Nives Matic - 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…

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  • Morena Golja - 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…

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  • Nike Labas - 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…

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  • Lorena Blazevic - 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…