“This coast is the leftovers from heaven”
Then you have the luminescent quality of the light, and the green, green valleys, shot through with silver olives and splashed by rust-red soil. And the nights, boiling with stars. A Croatian folk tale says that this coast is the leftovers from heaven — and who would argue?
Sunday Times
We know how to write in style
Penkala (mechanical pencil) was invented by Slavoljub Penkala in 1906, and the patent was registered in 35 countries through the world. Company TOZ – Penkala (Zagreb pencil factory), still exist today in Zagreb.
“Easily one of my favourite views in Europe can be found by walking around the walls of Dubrovnik”
Easily one of my favourite views in Europe can be found by walking around the walls of Dubrovnik in southern Croatia. This picturesque city has become a very popular tourist destination in recent years and no doubt much of the credit can go to photographs of the jumbled red roofs of the Old Town with the sea in the background. It’s an easy matter to take a walk along the walls and snap several dozen photographs!
Some of Best European Views, Europealacarte.co.uk
We are all special
Ivan Vučetić – criminologist and anthropologist, was born on the island of Hvar (later emigrated in Argentina). He is a pioneer of scientific dactiloscopy (identification by fingerprints) and his methods of identification were and are used worldwide.
“With its perfect waterfalls, beautifully lush jungle and stunning clear blue lagoons, it looks like a fantasy paradise island too good to be true.”
With its perfect waterfalls, beautifully lush jungle and stunning clear blue lagoons, it looks like a fantasy paradise island too good to be true. The idyllic Plitvice Lakes National Park in the Lika region of Croatia could stake a claim as one of the most spectacular holiday parks on the planet. The picturesque park has 16 stunning blue-green Plitvice Lakes, which are separated by natural dams of travertine limestone on the Plitvice plateau.
Daily Mail
Reasonably smart
Nikola Tesla inventor of alternating current was born in 1856 in the small village of Smiljan in Croatia. Thanks to his invention we nowadays use everyday devices such as televisions, computers, and refrigerators, that is, almost everything that surrounds us.
“Bluest sea on the planet”
There are islands, 1246 of them by one count, scattered like marbles atop what astronauts claim is the bluest sea on the planet, the Adriatic!
National Geografic, Destination of the Year: Exploring the New Croatia
