The unofficial league, popular water polo championship of the Dubrovnik bathing areas, is entering its 25 edition. This biggest sports-amateur competition in the world gathers together hundreds of players who began meeting together back in long ago 1922. The competition was occasionally stopped and then restarted, but in 1983 it gained it continuity and since [...]
Monday, July 14, 2008
Light, simple, fresh, not too spicy, boiled, grilled, cooked under the embers – these are just a few of the first associations that go through a person’s mind when Dalmatian cooking is mentioned. Fresh fish, sea food, Swiss chard and cooked vegetables, tomatoes, prosciutto, olives – the series of associations goes on. It is very [...]
Friday, July 11, 2008
The Dubrovnik summer cultural fever continues. After the fourth consecutive Libertas Film Festival comes the 59th Dubrovnik Summer Festival. It all starts with a formal opening, a spectacle in which artists take over the keys of the city and proclaim their “reign” over the city for the duration of the festival. From [...]
Friday, July 4, 2008
In recent years Dubrovnik has become a popular host of major cultural events. After last year’s exhibit of Faberge eggs in the Rector’s Palace, this summer there will be an exhibit of graphics in the Gallery of Art by Pablo Picasso, the greatest artist of the 20th - painter, ceramicist, innovator and sculptor. [...]
Friday, June 27, 2008
This is the fourth edition of the Libertas Film Festival, which will from 27th June till 2nd July bring many independent film titles from the whole world in competitive categories of feature film, documentary and short film. After Portugal and Norway, this year the FOCUS program will present for the first time in Croatia the [...]
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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 [...]
Friday, April 11, 2008
The most affluent library in the City of Dubrovnik is found precisely within the Franciscan monastery, one of the most important sights in Dubrovnik. The monastery was built in 1317 under the city walls near Minceta. Asides from the rich library, which has a large collection of priceless manuscripts, it is also houses one of [...]
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The town of Dubrovnik and its patron, Saint Blaise, have been connected spiritually and historically for centuries, and here comes the story on why the citizens of Dubrovnik chose Saint Blaise to be their patron. It all happened in 972, when Venetians tried to trick the citizens of Dubrovnik on their way to Levant, pretending to [...]
Friday, March 7, 2008
1. Tour the Dubrovnik city ramparts and enjoy unmatched vistas of the old town and sorounding sea. 2. See the Rector´s Palace, from where the ruling oligarchy governed the republic for almost 500 years. 3. Dine on today´s catch, freshly grilled, with a view of the old port at Lokanda Peskarija. 4. Meet the mariners and see the [...]
Thursday, February 21, 2008
The 16th century was Dubrovnik’s (Ragusa’s) maritime golden age. She owned more ships than ever before: ocean-going carracks and galleons and smaller coastal vessels for navigation within the Adriatic, in all employing some 5000 sailors, about a seventh of the Republic’s total population. In the first part of the 16th century, Dubrovniks fleet of ocean-going vessels [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
´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 [...]
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Easter in Porec Experience Easter in the relaxed atmosphere of Hotel Pical in Porec, with an extensive Easter gastronomic offer. Package includes accommodation in double rooms for a 3 nights stay, daily rich buffet breakfast and dinner, early check in (10 am), Upgrade to a suite (subject to availability), welcome wine, rich Easter breakfast and dinner, 1.5 [...]
Friday, February 1, 2008
2008 is not proclaimed the year of Marin Drzic in vain and the events that took place in Dubrovnik in its very beginning prove it. According to the announcements, numerous events dedicated to remembrance of the person and work of this great Renaissance writer from Dubrovnik and Croatia are foreseen. From the last week we singled [...]
Sunday, January 27, 2008
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 [...]
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
In travel guides to Dubrovnik, printed or online ones, it is very common to find one sentence said by the legendary Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. He was so delighted by Dubrovnik that ones during his stay in Dubrovnik in 1929 he said: “Those who seek paradise on Earth should come to Dubrovnik and see [...]
Saturday, January 12, 2008
New Valamar videos on Youtube: Dubrovnik President Hotel**** Valamar Club Dubrovnik*** Popularity: 38% [?]
Monday, January 7, 2008
500 years have passed since Marin Drzic was born in Dubrovnik. He was one of the greatest Croatian Renaissance writers, a man who showed culmination of his artistic creation in two of his comedies: Dundo Maroje (Uncle Maroje) and Skup (Miser), the works that even today, after half of the millennium, are still increasingly important. Besides [...]
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
667. Anonymous cosmographer from Ravenna wrote down the name of the city, in its Latinised form: Ragusa-Ragusium. He wrote: “Epidaurum id est Ragusium” (”Epidaurum is Ragusium today”). The settlement of the same name had already existed. 7-9 ct. Dubrovnik rules the coastland named Astarea. It stretches form Cavtat to Zaton. Around 700, the first cathedral was built. Around [...]
Friday, November 30, 2007
In the first text about the famous citizens of Dubrovnik the main role was given to Ivan Gundulic, and in the today’s post we will refer to the person and work of the great scientist – mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, physicist, philosopher and Jesuit from Dubrovnik Ruder Boskovic. 1711 In the family of Pava Bettera and Nikola [...]
Friday, November 23, 2007
The acclaimed Dubrovnik writer Ivan Gundulic, author of the famous play Dubravka, epic Osman and long poem Suze sina razmetnoga (The tears of the prodigal son), was born in Dubrovnik in 1589. We bring here his biography in brief, from the book “Volite li Dubrovnik?” (“Dubrovnik revisited”) by the famous literature historian Slobodan Prosperov [...]
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…
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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, July 18, 2008