The fourth Countrywide Cultural Tourism Day will be celebrated on May 19th. The central part of the event will take place in Dubrovnik highlighting the development and destination management projects in the field of cultural tourism, and the lectures by famous national and global lecturers.
Dubrovnik-Neretva County will include free guided tours of cultural sights, the attending of plays, concerts and lectures, free admission to the museums and different activities targeting at the preservation and maintenance of cultural resources.
Two CROATIAN MUSEUMS Designated FOR THE Western European MUSEUM OF THE YEAR AWARD
Museum of Broken Relationships and Museum of Modern Art, both found in Zagreb, have been nominated for the EU Museum of the Year Award. The winner will be decided on May 21st.
DIRECT FLIGHTS USA-CROATIA ANNOUNCED
Swift Air, as direct operating carrier, will be operating non-stop flights to Zagreb Pleso airport from Chicago OHare airport, the company announced at a press conference last week in Chicago. Kompas, their Croatian travel agent partner, confirmed the statement in their promotional release this week. Starting with a summer schedule June twentieth till Sep 11th 2011, flights will depart OHare airfield for Zagreb every Monday, return flights are booked for every Wed.. The winter schedule will be decided in June 2011. Aircraft that’ll be used for their operation is Boeing B767-200ER with 235 economy seats.
GOOD Beginning to the Holiday maker SEASON
In the first four months of 2011 Croatia had a twelve % increase in arrivals and overnights. This was just told by the Croatian Tourism Minister Damir Bajs. This result comes after the Croatian Tourism Ministry in cooperation with the non-public traveller sector adopted a brand new set of measures to guarantee better results in the visitor season, notably in low-season as of the beginning of this year.
NEW Lonesome PLANET CROATIA GUIDE
The new Forsaken Planet guide on Croatia is available now in print and online editions. This new guide includes easy to utilise maps, all-encompassing listings and more.
BLANKA VLASIC MAKING U.S DEBUT In NY
The 2010 Female World Sportsman of the Year, a four-time World champion and 2008 Olympic silver medalist in the High Jump, Blanka Vlasic will make her U.S debut in NY on June 11th 2011 as one of the headliners in the 2011 Adidas Grand Prix. The event will be held in the Icahn Stadium, a up to the minute facility on Randalls Island, New York. Purchase your tickets now and should you should happen to be a Croatian fan “receive a special 10% discount by entering the promotion code BLANKA as reported Travel Video News.
The ‘Pearl of the Adriatic ‘, on the Dalmatian coast, was a vital Mediterranean sea power from the thirtheenth century onwards. Though seriously ruined by a quake in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to save its gorgeous Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, priories, palaces and fountains.
Dubrovnik was founded in the first half of the 7th century by a group of refugees from Epidaurum, who established their settlement at the island and named it Laus. The Latin name Ragusa (Rausa), in use until the fifteenth century, originated from the rock (Lat. Lausa = rock). Opposite that location, at the foot of Srdic ; Mountain, the Slavs developed their own settlement under the name of Dubrovnik, extracted from the Croatian word dubrava, meaning oak woods.
When the channel that separated these two settlements was filled in the 12th century they were united. From the time of its multinational the city was under the protection of the Byzantine Empire ; after the Fourth Crusade the city came under the sovereignty of Venice (1205-1358), and by the Deal of Zadar in 1358 it became part of the Hungarian-Croatian Dominion, when it was to all intents and purposes a republican free make it clear that reached its top in the fifteenth and 16th centuries.
A business crisis in Mediterranean shipping and, more particularly, a catastrophic tremor on Apr 1667 that levelled most of the general public buildings, destroyed the wellbeing of the Republic. This forceful tremor came as a pivot point in the city’s development.
Dubrovnik is a phenomenally well-preserved example of a late-medieval walled town, with a regular street layout. Among the major medieval, Renaissance and Baroque monuments in the wonderful fortifications and the huge gates to the town are the City Hall (now the Rector’s Palace), dating from the 11th century ; the Franciscan Priory (finished in the 14th century, but now largely Baroque in appearance) with its imposing church ; the in depth Dominican Priory ; the cathedral (reconstructed after the 1667 tremor) ; the customs house (Sponza), the eclectic appearance of which exposes the proven fact that it is the work of a few hands over many years ; and a number of other Baroque churches, for example that of St Blaise (patron saint of the town).
