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 [...]
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
We have added 9 new photos of Dubrovnik on the Valamar channel on flickr.
Monday, November 12, 2007
The Dubrovnik Sponza Palace ist the oldest multimedia building in Dubrovnik. It was built in 1520, and since it had been mainly used as customs office, it was named Divona. Valuation office, storage house, and the mint were situated on the ground floor, and on the first floor conference room and literary academy. Before the [...]
Thursday, November 8, 2007
We’d like invite you to the New Year’s Eve celebration in Dubrovnik that will be held outdoors in the hotel complex Dubrovnik - Babin kuk. The main performers who will bid farewell to the Old Year and welcome the New 2008 Year are the band Raspashow and Luka Nizetic, who will perform on the central roofed [...]
Friday, November 2, 2007
Collage of music-and-stage events with the best Dubrovnik cultural and artistic societies, vocal groups and ensembles taking part, at the exquisite Marin Držic Theatre, on Tuesdays at 6.00 pm. 06.11.2007. - LAPAD VOCAL GROUP, RAGVSEVM RENAISSANCE ASSOCIATION, Guitar: ANTUN TOTO RILOVIC, Mandolin: BORIS BLAŠKOVIC 13.11.2007. - DUBROVNIK CHAMBER TRIO, LINÐO FOLKLORE ENSEMBLE, FOLK SINGERS 20.11.2007. - RAGACA [...]
Friday, October 19, 2007
We have entered into the second half of October, during which we have prepared many new offers. Today we have a special surprise that is connected to Dubrovnik and scuba diving. Namely, until the end of October all fans of scuba diving can in peace explore the beauties of the undersea in the local waters [...]
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Video surveillance, laser beams, heavily armed people in uniforms or, in two words… general chaos! That is how one can describe, in short, the scenes you could have witnessed ten days ago on the streets of the usually quiet, picturesque Mediterranean town of Dubrovnik (Croatia). The reason for all that was setting up of the [...]
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
We have added 12 new photographs (Dubrovnik) on the Valamar channel on flickr.
Monday, September 24, 2007
We can, without doubt, say that Dubrovnik has established itself as a city of top-grade events in the field of culture and arts. In these last few months we have on the blog announced and reviewed numerous world-class events that had taken place in Dubrovnik. And we can with certainty claim that Dubrovnik has offered [...]
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Dubrovnik is the city that is abundant in history and cultural heritage which has resulted in a significant number of cultural sights, attractions, astonishing views… There is a lot to be seen, felt and experienced in Dubrovnik but the city walls are the beginning of every story about the city and its sights. City walls That’s right, [...]
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Dubrovnik is the host of a major music event starting tomorrow. In the following 12 days 9 world-class concerts will be held. It is a part of the classic music festival “Julian Rachlin and Friends” and it is its seventh edition. Maestro Julian Rachlin is a great lover of Dubrovnik so it is not surprising [...]
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Without a drop of exaggeration we can say that Dubrovnik has in these days become a true world’s multicultural crossing point. There is so much going on in the town that it’s simply impossible to include it all in just one post. We have on several occasions written about the central cultural event of the [...]
Friday, August 3, 2007
The last three days of Dubrovnik Summer Festival, whose beginning we announced on our blog, were dedicated to the notorious Dubrovnik comedian, Marin Držic. The show “Dum Marinu u pohode” (“Visiting Father Marin”) was a kind of introductory event to the celebration of 500th anniversary of the birth of Marin Držic. The show was put [...]
Monday, July 16, 2007
The Revelin fortress is one of the most important Dubrovnik sights. Built in the middle of the XVI century with the purpose of defending the city, and it was, historically speaking, a pretty turbulent period, an age when in Dubrovnik threat of Venice attack was felt once again. The original project of the Revelin fortress [...]
Monday, July 9, 2007
The Dubrovnik Libertas Film Festival ended a week ago and tomorrow another big Dubrovnik summer season event is scheduled to start tomorrow – the Dubrovnik Summer Games. This cultural spectacle is being held for the 58th year in a row, and it will last from 10th of July to 25th of August. As in the [...]
Thursday, July 5, 2007
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 [...]
Friday, June 29, 2007
As introduced in the post „Introduction to Dubrovnik stories“, in this section we will be announcing, among other contents related to Dubrovnik, the events that are definitely worth visiting. The first on the list is, of course, the Libertas Film Festival which takes place in Dubrovnik, from today until 4th July. The festival was first [...]
Thursday, June 21, 2007
The first post on Valamar blog is an introduction into the story about our most Southern destination, the ancient pearl of the Mediterranean, the city of Dubrovnik. Here you will be able to learn and read about everything that characterises this unique city on a regular basis, stories on how Dubrovnik once was, on everything [...]
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…
Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator at Rabac d.d.. On Valamar blog, she writes about subjects related to Rabac, town she has private and business relations to, town where she acquired her first experiences related to tourism as a high-school girl.
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, November 30, 2007