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As
you put on your tie before a business meeting of a theatre performance, as
you write with your ball point pen, as you turn on the light do you ever
think of Croatia ? Our guess is that you don't. Why should you ?
But let us press the point. Your tie is, after all, a direct descendant of
the very same cravat that Croatian soldiers, as the French encyclopedia
tells us, used to tie around their necks in the 17th century. We have light
thanks to Tesla's system of alternating-current.
And the ball-pen you write with, was invented by Slavoljub Penkala, a
Croatian engineer who constructed the first ball point pen and the first
fountain pen in 1906.
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. " Thus spoke George
Bernard Shaw, referring to the largest archipelago in the Mediterranean with
its 140 islands, islets and reefs. Few people realize that Shakespeare's
"Twelfth Night" takes place here, or that Carlo Goldoni, Jack London, Eugene
Ionesco, to name but a few, .were enchanted by the beauty of the Croatian
landscape. Immortalized in words or in paintings, the Croatian towns are
discreet witnesses to so many lives. Trsteno, a small place near Dubrovnik,
never found its place in the works of Lord Byron. Nevertheless, it
apparently had a special place in the heart of one of the fathers of
European romanticism. The reason, so the legend has it, is a beautiful
blonde from the North. The famous master of plots and intrigues Agatha
Christie also had a good reason to find a special place in her heart for
Dubrovnik and Split: she spent her second honeymoon there.
One
of the most beautiful love stories
of the century progressed towards its denouement here. The Dalmatian escape
of the British sovereign, Edward VIII and the American divorcee Wallis
Simpson caused a stir in the worlds of politics and fashion. A love more
important than the crown turned the attention of the British and American
press to the spot where the lovers chose to stay, to the beautiful Dalmatia.
It was then that stylized parts of the Dalmatian folk costume
first appeared on the catwalks and streets of New York. The king, soon to
become a mere Duke of Windsor, learned the popular Dalmatian game "balote",
which is similar to bowling. But above all, he enjoyed the beauties of the
region. There are many elegant villas and old hotels in Opatija, the tourist
centre of the Northern Adriatic, and they all have their stories. Opatija
used to be the resort of the
fashionable set and its reputation has
survived. Many European kings and emperors, heirs, dukes and famous artists
came here to conduct their affairs -of state or otherwise. Or to seek
inspiration. "Under the window of our villa, " wrote the famous dancer
Isadora Duncan, who spent some time in the villa Amalia in Opatija in 1902,
"grew a palm which fascinated me. I had never before seen a palm growing
free. I watched it every morning, as its beautiful leaves trembled in the
morning breeze, and I copied from it that slight trembling of the shoulders,
arms and fingers. " We could tell a lot of tales of the famous who came
here. Some of them are public, some are secret and some are open secrets.
Let us, instead, tell the tale
of the country they have choose, not without
reason.
You can only come to Croatia by chance once. It warrants every subsequent
visit by its variety, beauty and hospitality. A place where the
Mediterranean, the Alps and the Pannonian plain come together: this country
has
taken something from every one of them and blended those parts into a unique
harmony and a rare beauty. Side by side in Croatia there are phenomena which
are usually many miles apart. Within a hundred kilometers you will find the
sea, the karsts, densely wooded mountains and fertile plains. Although the
Adriatic is undoubtedly the most popular tourist destination, continental
Croatia abounds in beauty: a land of forests and underground streams, the
Plitvice lakes, the region of Lika, the forests of Gorski Kotar, the wheat
fields of Slavonia, rivers seeming with fish, and the picturesque rolling
hills of Zagorje. Croatia is among the smallest of European countries ~ only
56,500
km2 of land and less than 32,000 km2 of sea, yet things which are
found alone in other countries are all here in this small country. And all
those beauties are just a few hours'
drive away from the European centers on whose traditions, through constant
giving and receiving, Croatia has been building its history and culture,
past and present. And above all, its future. If we want to be honest, the
seaside towns of Porec, Rovinj, Makarska, Hvar, Korcula and other tourist
resorts in Croatia do not deserve the title of a jet set European summer
resort. But then we have to be completely honest: practically nowhere else
will you find the sea as clean as the Croatian Adriatic. The shore is not
lined with concrete hotels, and Zagreb has managed, despite its size, to
retain its soul, untouched by alienation, endless streets and high-rise
buildings. In Croatia, the beauties of nature are not something one reads
about in books. Ecologically, it has one of the best preserved environments,
with as many as seven national parks.
Croats first settled the eastern coast of the
Adriatic sea in the seventh century A.D. Tomislav, the first Croatian king, was
crowned in the year 925 A.D.
The Roman emperor Diocletian built a palace in
Dalmatia in 305 A.D., which became the foundation of today’s city of Split, one
of Croatia’s six monuments under UNESCO protection.
islets and reefs. Few people realize that Shakespeare's
"Twelfth Night" takes place here, or that Carlo Goldoni, Jack London, Eugene
Ionesco, to name but a few, .were enchanted by the beauty of the Croatian
landscape. Immortalized in words or in paintings, the Croatian towns are
discreet witnesses to so many lives. Trsteno, a small place near Dubrovnik,
never found its place in the works of Lord Byron. Nevertheless, it
apparently had a special place in the heart of one of the fathers of
European romanticism. The reason, so the legend has it, is a beautiful
blonde from the North. The famous master of plots and intrigues Agatha
Christie also had a good reason to find a special place in her heart for
Dubrovnik and Split: she spent her second honeymoon there.
fashionable set and its reputation has
survived. Many European kings and emperors, heirs, dukes and famous artists
came here to conduct their affairs -of state or otherwise. Or to seek
inspiration. "Under the window of our villa, " wrote the famous dancer
Isadora Duncan, who spent some time in the villa Amalia in Opatija in 1902,
"grew a palm which fascinated me. I had never before seen a palm growing
free. I watched it every morning, as its beautiful leaves trembled in the
morning breeze, and I copied from it that slight trembling of the shoulders,
arms and fingers. " We could tell a lot of tales of the famous who came
here. Some of them are public, some are secret and some are open secrets.
Let us, instead, tell the tale
of the country they have choose, not without
reason. 
km2 of land and less than 32,000 km2 of sea, yet things which are
found alone in other countries are all here in this small country. And all
those beauties are just a few hours'
drive away from the European centers on whose traditions, through constant
giving and receiving, Croatia has been building its history and culture,
past and present. And above all, its future. If we want to be honest, the
seaside towns of Porec, Rovinj, Makarska, Hvar, Korcula and other tourist
resorts in Croatia do not deserve the title of a jet set European summer
resort. But then we have to be completely honest: practically nowhere else
will you find the sea as clean as the Croatian Adriatic. The shore is not
lined with concrete hotels, and Zagreb has managed, despite its size, to
retain its soul, untouched by alienation, endless streets and high-rise
buildings. In Croatia, the beauties of nature are not something one reads
about in books. Ecologically, it has one of the best preserved environments,
with as many as seven national parks. 
