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Video postcard : Valamar Club Tamaris
Thursday, July 2, 2009
The Valamar Club Tamaris family resort is located next to the beautiful beaches of the Lanterna peninsula. Unforgettable entertainment all day every day for the whole family enables everyone to indulge their creativity and sense of adventure whilst on holiday.(http://www.valamar.com/club-tamaris-porec/)
Summertime in Porec: 10 things to do
Thursday, June 25, 2009
1. Enjoy the sounds of jazz, performed by top musicians from all over the world in an inspirational environment of Lapidarij in Porec. 2. Go inside the Baredine Cave near Porec, and experience the unusual world of subterranean animal species, and cool out hot summer days on pleasant 14 Cº. 3. Visit one of indigenous Istrian taverns [...]
Istria and Primorje – the cradle of Croatian literacy
Monday, December 15, 2008
My colleague Duska Zuzic has recently written about the tradition and invaluable importance of Glagolitic scripts on the territory of Island of Krk. This ancient script, firmly rooted among the Croatian people, has preserved itself for the longest period of time in Primorje and Istria. Duska mentioned Bascanska ploca (the Baska tablet), the [...]
Valamar photo collage
Monday, December 8, 2008
New photo gallery on Valamar Flickr channel. Enjoy. (Dubrovnik, Krk, Porec and Rabac photos by Barbara Marincic):
5 interesting facts about Istria’s history
Monday, December 1, 2008
1. Did you know that the first evidence about the existence of pre-historic people in the Istria area comes from Lower Paleolithic times? The age of the pre-historic handmade stone hammer that was found in Šandalja cave near Pula is estimated to be around 2 million to 800000 years old. There are also findings from [...]
Series of gourmet travel guides through Istria on Valamar TV
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 [...]
Sights of Dubrovnik: Fort Lovrijenac
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 [...]
Video clips of Croatian tourism
Monday, October 27, 2008
A reminder of a few clips which Croatian National Tourist Board was promoting this year, and which mention, among others, Istria, Dubrovnik, truffles, wines Malvazija and Plavac Mali…
Nezakcij - The oldest town in Istria
Monday, October 20, 2008
Nezakcij (Vizace, lat. Nesactium) is the oldest town in Istria. Today this exceptional historical location is an archeological park that has remains from the Antique and late Antique periods. It is located in the south eastern part of Istria, near Valtura. The first written sources that mention Nezakcij come from Antique times (Titus Livius memoirs), and [...]
3 interesting facts: Rabac
Monday, October 6, 2008
(1) Did you know that the first hotel in Rabac was opened In June 1889? It was located in the house of the Viškovi? family near today’s atelier Orlando and was called Quarnero. A regular guest to the hotel, which then only had a few rooms and a bar on the ground floor, was the [...]
The Crown of Drzic’s Year
Monday, September 22, 2008
This year has rightly been voted the year of Marin Drzic, and we have already mentioned a few times the events that have been held in Dubrovnik as a part of these commemorations. The crown of the 500th anniversary of the birth of this great man from Dubrovnik occurred at the beginning of this month [...]
3 curiosities: Town of Krk
Monday, September 15, 2008
(1) Did you know that Romans, upon their arrival, found already developed town and implemented their buildings into the existing ones, keeping the old lay out. Today’s walls are mainly from the Middle Ages, and sections next to the Franciscan Monastery, castle and the coast date from the times of the times of Roman settlement. [...]
New video clips of Porec, Dubrovnik, Rabac and Krk
Monday, September 8, 2008
Valamar video channel has been on popular video service Youtube for more than half of a year, and there you can currently find 44 video clips. Most of the video materials relate to Valamar hotels, apartments and campsite, and we are presenting you today recent additions of destination videos of Porec, Dubrovnik, Rabac and Krk [...]
Sites of Dubrovnik: Dominican Monastery
Monday, September 1, 2008
We have mentioned many Dubrovnik sites on this blog, and here are reminders to the link of some of them: The Rector’s Palace, Franciscan Monastery, Orlando’s pole, Sponza Palace, City walls, Fortress of Revelin, Stradun (Placa)…Today, it’s time to talk about the oldest monastery in Dubrovnik, the one of the Dominicans. This is an exceptionally [...]
Istrian brodetto
Monday, August 25, 2008
We have written about Istrian food on several occasions. We mentioned some of the old good cuisine, Istrian soup with fuži (traditional pastry), and the king of gastronomy, his majesty white truffle, which is used in Istrian cooking in most various combinations. Today we will talk about fish. This post is dedicated to a simple [...]
Parenzana
Monday, August 18, 2008
A few words today about once frequent and important, but today nearly forgotten traffic route which was in function from 1902 to 1935. I am talking about Parenzana, one-rail railway connecting with Trieste over a series of stations, with Porec as a final station. The main purpose of this railway is to transfer agricultural goods [...]
Summer photo collage: Dubrovnik
Monday, August 11, 2008
Two weeks ago, we published a photo collage of Porec and Rabac, destinations in Istria where Valamar has the largest number of accommodation facilities. There are about 100 photos in Valamar photo gallery on popular flicr, and you can expect more refreshments soon. Today we are moving further south, to the always exciting Dubrovnik. We [...]
- 05/09/2012: Holiday with accordion sounds
- 05/02/2012: Rabac – a heavenly resort
- 04/26/2012: Home away from home
- 04/19/2012: Spring on wheels in Krk
- 04/12/2012: Asparagus
- 04/04/2012: Long Walk Day
- 03/28/2012: Istrian souvenirs
- 03/21/2012: Sunny spring in Rabac
- 03/15/2012: Spring aromas and flavours on Krk
- 03/14/2012: Gathering of car enthusiasts
- HolidayCheck awards for 2012
- ANNOUNCING THE VALAMAR PRIZE COMPETITION WINNERS
- Libertas Film Festival
- Camping Lanterna Among the Best in Europe
- ANNOUNCING THE VALAMAR PRIZE COMPETITION WINNERS
- Prestigious TUI Holly 2010 Award to Valamar Club Tamaris & Tamaris Residence
- Grand opening of the Valamar Riviera Hotel in Porec
- VALAMAR JAZZ FESTIVAL
- Sixth Libertas Film Festival in Dubrovnik and Valamar Lacroma
- Valamar Lacroma Hotel welcomes 450 participants of a diabetes conference
- 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… - ......................................................................................................
- 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… - ......................................................................................................
- 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… - ......................................................................................................
- 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…
Kids learn sports while you relax. During your family holiday, treat your children to a week of professional coaching at one of Valamar’s fun sports programs. Take your pick from a range of sports including sailing, basketball, mountain biking, handball, beach volleyball, dancing and go-karting. While the kids enjoy learning new skills with professional players from the world of sport, parents can chill out with a host of special treats in Pore?.
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