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Croatia - Facts
Croatia SAILING
"The gods wanted to crown their creation and on the last day they turned tears, stars and the sea breeze into the isles of Kornati" - George Bernard Shaw, 1929
 Croatia is one of the best sailing spots in the Mediterranean. It features various pleasant winds - Maestral( Mistral) , Bura ( Bora) , Jugo - ideal for sailing experiences, as well as numerous islands, beaches and channels where one can do sail and enjoy almost untouched nature in the heart of Europe.
Somebody said that cruising around the Kornati, for example, is the closest Europe gets to a Thor Heyerdahl experience. For those who like their sailing to have a social dimension, there are no fewer than 500 harbours and 50 fully serviced marinas, each with restaurants, hot showers, mini-marts and weather charts.
If you know the nautical ropes, you can charter bareboat along Adriatic Coast . There are many charter companies that do yacht charter.
 Also you can do package island-hopping holidays afloat too, organized on old timers - schooners - some of them built more than a century ago to carry fruit from North Africa and now converted into a simple and basic cruising boat. They usually offer accommodation of up to 20 people in say 10 small cabins with shared facilities. Those schooners sail along Adriatic coast, starting from Split or Dubrovnik, and stopping over for a night/day at Vis, Bisevo, Korcula, Mljet, Brac and Hvar or similar.
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CROATIAN FOOD AND WINE
Croatian cuisine is heterogeneous, and is therefore known as "the cuisine of regions".
Its modern roots date back to Proto-Slavic and ancient periods and the differences in the selection of foodstuffs and forms of cooking are most notable between those on the mainland and those in coastal regions.
Mainland cuisine is more characterized by the earlier Proto-Slavic and the more recent contacts with the more famous gastronomic orders of today - Hungarian, Viennese and Turkish - while the coastal region bears the influences of the Greek, Roman and Illyrian, as well as of the later Mediterranean cuisine - Italian and French.
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General Information about Croatia |
LAND SURFACE AREA: 56 691 km2
THE SEA SURFACE AREA: 31 067 km2
POPULATION: 4 800 000 (1991. census)
CAPITAL: Zagreb
COASTAL LENGTH: 5 835 km
THE NUMBER OF ISLANDS, ISLETS AND ROCKS: 1 185
THE NUMBER OF INHABITED ISLANDS: 66
THE LARGEST ISLANDS: Krk i Cres
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Croatian
THE ALPHABET: Roman
THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT: multi-party parliamentary republic
CURRENCY: the kuna (kn); 1 kn equals 100 lipas
THE COUNTRY CODE FOR CROATIA: 385
THE CLIMATE is continental in northern Croatia. In central Croatia it is semi-mountainous and mountainous, and along the Adriatic it is Mediterranean.
TIME: GMT +1 (during summer time +2)
NATIONAL PARKS: the Brijuni archipelago, the Kornati archipelago, the Krka River, the island of Mljet, the Paklenica canyons and torrents, the Plitvice lakes, Risnjak (karst phenomena)
NATURE PARKS: the Velebit mountain range, mount Biokovo, Kopacki rit, the plain of Lonjsko polje, mount Medvednica, Telascica lake on the island of Dugi otok, Papuk, Vranjsko lake and Ueka mountain.
MAJOR HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL MOUNUMENTS: the Arena in Pula, Diocletian's palace in Split (built by the Roman Emperor Diocletian and now under the protection of UNESCO), the theatre in Hvar (one of the oldest public theatres in Europe), the city of Trogir (the historical centre under the protection of UNESCO), the towns of Krk, Rab and Hvar, the Basilica of Euphrasius in Porec (under UNESCO's protection),
St Donat's church in Zadar, the cathedral of Sibenik, some 50 medieval castles in northern Croatia. |
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