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Islands
of the Dalmatia center
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The islands of archipelago of Central Dalmatia,
situated in front of Spalato offers many beautiful
beaches, city rich in history, pollution free
nature. There are 4 main islands: Brac, Hvar (Lesina),
Vis (Lissa) and Korkula. But these islands are
surrounded by small islands, equally beautiful
like Solta and Lastovo. All are easy to reach
from Split and Dubrovnik.
Brac is one among the largest islands of the Adriatic,
covered by forests, pines and olives. It is famous
for its white marble used to build up the White
House in Washington, the Reichstag of Berlin and
the centre of the Parliament of Vienna.
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The tourist development is coincided with the realization
of submarine aquaducts that carry the water from the mainland.
Supetar is the cheifcentre of the island, a city typically
medieval situated in a bay from the sabbioso bottom. Bol
carefully laid down at the slopes of the Vidova mountain
(778 meters), its a city reknowned for its wonderful insenature,
creeks solitary and the long beach of Zlatni Rat, a sand
tongue of 630 metres that changes its form as per the
wind direction. Both Supetar and Bol arrange excellent
tourist equipments and good receptive structures. Milna
is XVII century, town of fisherman that possesses a beautiful
church in rococò style. Today it is the only tourist
spot on the island. Blaca accomodates a 16th century monastery.
Being destroyed by the fire, it was rebuilt in the 18th
century and today its a museum. In the neighborhood the
glagolitiche cavern of Drago conserve reliefs and recordings.
The glagolitico is an ancient Slavic alphabet.
Hvar is an island of sun, full of vines, olive groves
and aromatic pinete, known also for its hills covered
by lavender and for the splendid natural atmosphere. The
winter are mild and summers are warm renders the destination
ideal for tourism that goes whole year. Hvar is the main
city surrounded by walls and medieval fortresses. One
of the jewels of the coast is considered Dalmatian is
famous, for the numerous monuments that testify the illustrious
past, for its sea and its beaches. The Arsenal was constructed
in 1579 in order to accommodate the ships from war; The
beautiful lodge has been attributed by veronise master
sanmichele. The cathedral of Sv. Stefan, of the 16th century,
is a synthesis of Renaissance and Barocco is one with
an elegant bell tower and a precious altar embellished
from a picture of the Virgin, amongst Dalmatia's most
beautiful.
Starigrad, in the northern part of the island, is situated
to the extremity of a deep fiord protected from all the
parts by several trees of different species. Numerous
noble buildings which proves that the place was appreciated
also in the last centuries.
Jelsa is attended, a little punctuated charming place
of numerous calette raggiungibili on foot.
The small
island of Šolta
The small island of Šolta, protected from the mass
tourism, is a favourite destination of the spalatini
as they love to shelter themselves here for peace and
tranquillity.
A long pebble beach 100 meters is the only tourist zone
of the island. The main settlement are found in the
inland, While along the coast beautiful bays are found,
like Maslinica.
The island
of Korkula
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The island of Korkula has been considered the
native land of Marco Polo the legend.The city
of Korkula it has been founded by principals own
Antenore.Like all the islands of the Dalmatia,
also Korcula had a tormented history in the Middle
Ages until the Venezians carried a little stability
along with them.
The historical center extends on one small peninsula
and is rich of smallsquares, medieval churches
and palaces.The bell tower of Sv. Marko erge in
the higherpant of the city, while the cathedral
shows one splendid portale realized from Milan
Bonino.
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The shovel of the altar is attributed
to Tintoretto. The city accommodates every year, on
27th July, a knightly tournament that remembers the
battles against the Arabs. In the bay the island-monastero
of Badja is interesting. Lumbardia it is dipped in the
vine yards that produce the Grk, a famous white wine
corposo. The town offers numerous tourist and beautiful
infrastructures and beaches.
Luka Sail it is caught up exceeding numerous bays that
are caught up covering massicciate narrow lanes. Today
it is a famous bathing and thermal center for the cure
with mud.
Lastovo is found 13 kilometers to the south of Korkula.
It is an island to collinare, of carsica origin. The
highest summit, the Hum, measures 417 meters. On the
southern coast a wide bay, repaired from the bora and
the twenty accidents is opened. On the coast is instead
the bay of Skrivena Luka, with one low and sabbiosa
beach which orients them. The entroterra is much green,
covered of Mediterranean spot. Lastovo is encircled
from others islands and rocks and deserts.
National
Parks
Croatia has an intact and well preserved nature. In
fact they have constituted seven national parks that
occupy a total surface of approximately 36 million hectares.
Three of the parks are on islands, the others are found
in the inland of the regions of Istria and Dalmatia.
National
park of Krka
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of Šibenik, Drniš has been proclaimed
such on February 1985.
The area of the park covers 14,200 hectares.The
Krka is a carsic river, 72 kilometers long and
rich of water. During its course,there are vast
canyons, numerous cascades, rapids and smalls
lake.
The more important cascades are those of Topoljski
luk (22 meters), Bilušièa buk (22
meters), Æošiæa-slap or Brljan
(15 meters), Manglovaèki slap (60 meters),
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Sondovjel (8 meters), Miljacke slap
(24 meters), Roški slap (26 meters) and Skradinski
buk (46 meters) particularly evocative for its 17 levels.
The exception of this natural park resides in the extraordinary
combination of geomorphology and naturalistic elements
and in particular historical and anthropological elements.
There is a rich Mediterranean flora and a local fauna,
like the trout of Visovac and the salmone of the Adriatic.
But the numerous archeological remains can be admired:
remains of romans and paleo christianity (a villa and
a basilica), a medieval fortress and numerous mills
are functional till today. Above all, they enunciate
for importance stand out Franciscan monastery of the
island of Visovac and monastery of Krka, rich in art
treasures.
Numerous installations inside the park, between which
we point out the small town of Skradin which is a national
monument now a days.
National
park of Brijuni (Brioni)
The Brijuni form an archipelago of fourteen islands
of absolute beauty and tranquillity along the south-western
coast of Istria, from where they are separated from
the channel of Fazana.
They have been declared national parks on 9th of November
1983. The total area of the National Park is 2,700 hectares.
The greater island is Veliki Brijun, 5 kilometers long
with a total area of 579 hectares. Geographically Brijuni
is divided in three groups: five belong to Veliki Brijun,
five to Evils Brijun and two to the channel of Fazana.
The mild climate, typically Mediterranean, and a medium
temperature of 6.3°C in winter and 22.2°C in
summer offers the ideal climatic conditions for the
development of an immense flora, with over 680 species
of plants among which pines, cypresses, elm trees, oaks,
ash trees, cedars, eucalyptuses, palms and bambooare
there that form a dense forest of medterrancan scrub
and subtropical vegitation.Among the animals follows
deers, monfflons, squirels, rabbits, pheasants and many
species of birds are popular in the entire area.
National
park of Kornat (Incoronata)
The Kornat islands form the largest archipelago
of the Adriatic sea with 147 islands, isolette and rocks
and full of small fields of pines and olives. From the
administrative point of view they belong to the city
of Šibenik, while the real and exact center is
found at Murter.
The National Park of Kornat includes 109 islands, for
a total length of 47.5 kilometers and width of 8 kilometers.
The archipelago takes its name from its islands, Kornat.
It has been formed with the progressive sinking of the
coast, at the rate of a meter every thousand years.
Two thousand years ago, in fact, Kornat, Katina and
Dugi Otok formed only an island and the remains of the
buildings of the era are found today little under level.
The marine bottom of this zone is formed from numerous
rocks of interesting shapes: high pinnacles, caves and
rich submarine caverns of corals, nacres and shells
from the thousand colors. A true paradise for the sub.
Almost completely uninhabited, wild and incontaminated,
the Kornats attract numerous tourists, above all velisti
in search of peace and tranquillity.
National
park of Paklenica
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In 1978 Mountain of Velebit (1758 meters) has
been proclaimed reserved world-wide by the Human
and Biosphes Programme of UNESCO. The National
Park of Paklenica belongs to the district of Zadar
and found on its slopes, although the center is
Starigrad. The park, established in 1949, is famous
for the beauty of its natural atmosphere, for
the flora and fauna. The total are it covers,
is 3,617 hectares. From the geomorfologico point
of view, the National Park of Paklenica is formed
from a valley 8.5 kilometers long and from two
canyons, Velika and Mala Paklenica, to its perpendicular.
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Also the caves of Manita Pecina and Jama
Vodarica are very spectacular. Moreover, the numerous
corsico phenomena create evocative underground courses.
The most important cliff is Aniæa kuk (715 meters),
favourite place for the lovers of freeclimbing &
mountaineering.
The thick vegetation of the park is very diversified,
both maritime and continental, due to the altitude variations
of region. From the fauna scientists point of view,
the more illustrious host of the park is certainly thebear.
National
park of lakes of Plitvice
This national park is found in the region of
Lika, after the passage of Vratnik and Otocac. The region
was proclaimed as a national park in 1949. On 19,479
hectares, 14,000 as covered by forests. 16 consice lakes
of blue green water extend to the lines of the cliff
for 7 km, 92 cascades connects between them . The water
reaches the lakes from numerous torrents and streams.
This particular system has been generated as a result
of the progressive erosion of cliffs of the plateau
formed from limestone and dolomite by the work of waters
of the river Korana. The river has excavated the stone
more in width than in depth. The white deposits that
cover the bottom and the walls of the lakes, confer
to the waters a crystalline color.
Forests of beeches, firs and larches cover the entire
region, proclaimed by the Unesco the natural patrimony
of the humanity. In the numerous forests the species
of animals live today: wild bears, wolves, wild bears,
wild cats, small rodents, besides birds of prey and
otters. In order to visit the park its advisable to
motives equip oneself with a map, because the number
of paths are vast.
Existing route advice you also for those who want to
cover the area in automobile.
National
park of Risnjak
The National Park of Risnjak is found at 30 kilometers
from Rijeka and at 15 kilometers from Delnice in the
most western zone of the dinarica region, that joins
the Alps to the Balkans.
The Risnjak mount (1,528 meters) are of cersica formation.
With an area of 3.014 hectares, the park has a height
that goes from 680 meters to 1,528 meters of Risnjak,
an authentic climatic barrier between the coastal zone
and the inland. This makes its fauna and above all its
flora that has a lot of species in relation with the
limited extension of the park. In the park there are
various species of animals present, as the tawny bear,
the lynx, the chamois, the hawk.
Platak is one location at the limits of the famous park
for its equipments. Numerous paths carry to the top
of the surrounding zone, as an example Snjeznik (1506
meters).
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