The Dubrovnik Summer Festival traditionally concluded one festival season and announced another, starting with St. Vlaho’s Festivity. A multimedia monograph (DVD) dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Summer Festival was presented on 31 January in the Revelin Fort. The framework which consisted of large orchestras at the beginning and the end of the Festival was [...]
Friday, January 29, 2010
During a conference in Abu Dhabi, UNESCO’s Intangible Heritage Committee decided to enlist seven phenomena from Croatia into its Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Alongside the Lepoglava, Hvar and Pag lace, Kastav bell ringers, Hvar procession Za krizen (Following the cross), spring procession of Ljelje (Queens), traditional wooden toys from the [...]
Friday, January 22, 2010
The Greece Minoan Lines Company from the island of Crete is about to establish a fast ferry line Patras - IIgoumenitsa - Krf - Dubrovnik - Venice. After the Greek ferry “Ionian Fantasy” left the Gruž port for the last time back in 1990 on 1 October, a direct and regular boat, i.e. ferry line [...]
Friday, December 18, 2009
Preparations for the New Year’s Eve party, a manifestation thanks to which Dubrovnik has been one of the most attractive world destinations in the past ten years, are underway. The traditional Christmas Fair was open for public in the Sponza Palace Atrium in the old heart of the town on 13 December. Traditional crafts and handicrafts [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Fort Revelin, Humanitarian concert, Dubrovnik symphony orchestra Rotary Club – Dubrovnik, 15 December, 8 pm. Marin Drzic Theatre, Ballet divertissement, Dance Studio Lazareti, 17 December 7.30 pm. Marin Drzic Theatre, Vanca Kljakovic The testament, Director: Ivan Leo Lemo, 18 - 19 December. Marin Drzic Theatre, Maestral vocal group & friends, 21 December 7.30 pm. Revelin Fort, Christmas gala concert, [...]
Friday, December 4, 2009
Welcoming the New Year’s Eve on Stradun is one of the most magnificent events one can experience in the town of Dubrovnik. The large covered stage, the light effects which make the surrounding monuments shine like they are magical, the lights flowing down the bell tower and spreading across Stradun at midnight; all of this [...]
Friday, November 27, 2009
The new passenger terminal at the Dubrovnik airport will be opened for the season 2010 and the investments into the reconstruction, which was initiated for the purposes of preparing the airport for two millions passengers, have not been cancelled although the crisis has “taken its bite” into the entire world economic market. The overall value [...]
Friday, November 6, 2009
In the exhibition hall of the Etnographic Museum - granary “Rupe” in Dubrovnik, a guest exhibition “Croatia in Historical Panoramic Photographs” from the Zagreb City Museum has been opened. The authors of the exhibition are Slavko sterk and Miljenko Smokvina and the art designer is Zeljko Kovacic. The visitors of this exhibition will have the opportunity [...]
Monday, November 2, 2009
´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 [...]
Monday, October 19, 2009
Today, the Rector’s Palace in Dubrovnik is the site of the Cultural - History Museum. However, as one of the most important public buildings in Dubrovnik, it used to be the administrative centre for the Republic of Dubrovnik and the Rector. The Rector had living quarters and an office in the Palace, and it was [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
The Dubrovnik Stradun is the central street of the city of Dubrovnik and in itself a great tourist attraction. If you are to visit Dubrovnik and take a stroll down the famous Stradun, remember one thing – the surface you are walking on, the cobbled street surrounded by buildings’ façades on both sides was once [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009
Orlando’s pole is placed in the centre of geometry of the city of Dubrovnik, and the fact that for four centuries there fluttered a state flag of the free Republic of Dubrovnik makes it the most important symbol of Dubrovnik’s independence and freedom. The flag of the free Republic of Dubrovnik was white with letters [...]
Friday, September 25, 2009
With the goal of promoting cultural events and giving a 50% discount at the same time, the town of Dubrovnik has introduced a new tourist product – a tourist card. Every major European town has a tourist card as a part of its offer which makes things easier for the tourists while they are staying [...]
Friday, August 7, 2009
After a success of the handball camp with a well-known Croatian national team player Domagoj Duvnjak, a swimming camp led by a top Croatian athlete Mihovil Spanja will be held in Dubrovnik from 16 to 23 August. Just like the previous one, this camp will also take place on the outer area of the Valamar Club [...]
Friday, July 31, 2009
Within the additional Dubrovnik Summer Festival programme, an exhibition of paintings by Davor Lucianovic called “Vremeplov” (time machine) will be opened at midnight on 31 July. This Dubrovnik painter’s exhibition project will be at your disposal at the Sponza Palace Atrium until 9 August, and the main theme will be a walk through history of [...]
Friday, July 24, 2009
Clear sea, beautiful coast, the Mediterranean as it used to be, that is how the foreigners, who like to visit the Adriatic Sea, see Croatia. More and more internationally known jet-setters, business people and stars searching for peace and an ideal holiday have been choosing our country over the past years. Some of the most [...]
Friday, July 17, 2009
(Media press release) The Croatian hotelier Valamar announces “Summer of sport and entertainment with famous Olympic contenders” (http://www.valamar.com/TopsportWeek). The programme is organised in collaboration with some of the greatest Croatian sports legends such as Sanja Jovanovic, Franjo Arapovic, Vlado Sola, Domagoj Duvnjak, Slavko Goluza, Petra and Dario Kliba, Sebastian Vollak and other great athletes which [...]
Monday, July 13, 2009
Camping in Croatia.Enjoy the unique atmosphere of the Mediterranean in one of our campsites. (http://www.camping-adriatic.com/)
Thursday, July 9, 2009
This year, the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, traditionally held from 10 July to 25 August, will once again gather more than 2000 artists from around the world who will put more than seventy drama, music, dance, visual arts and film programmes on stage at a dozen different locations. The Dubrovnik Summer Festival is the most important [...]
Friday, July 3, 2009
Two Croatian islands – Lopud and Sv.Klement – have found a place on the list of 20 undiscovered islands of the world compiled by British magazine “The Observer” and published on www.guardian.co.uk. After the city hustle and bustle, many people want to spend at least a part of their vacation in a peaceful and stress-free environment [...]
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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 5, 2010