About Croatia

It is difficult to define the significance of a group of islands to a country and its inhabitants. You will certainly agree there is something special about that moment when you set off from the mainland into the unknown. All your worries become unimportant and the everyday routine is left further and further behind. The first journey to the Adriatic is always an adventure, a trip into the unknown. Whatever you expect on your arrival, you will be unprepared for the warmth of the welcome in Croatia. Whatever you expect from a holiday, you will be unable to forget Croatia. It is a land of discoveries, of pristine nature, of a brilliant new dawn, and of a lifestyle so often imagined, yet so rarely attained.

Forget about politics. Leave your ties behind. The restraints of civilisation are behind you, and rugged nature's ahead. Battles have been waged over her. Great rulers have surrendered to her. Powerful potentates have been seduced by her beauty. She has left poets speechless and artists agog.

Croatia is a country with a thousand year old history. It covers an area of 56,538 sq. km, with 31,900 sq. km of territorial waters. The coastline, including the islands, is 5,789km long. It has a population of 4.8 million people. The capital of Croatia is Zagreb.

Croatia is undoubtedly one of the least saturated tourist centres in the northern Mediterranean, representing a remarkably valuable and environmentally preserved asset in the very heart of Europe.

Croatia is also one of the few European countries which can pride itself on its clean environment and rich flora and fauna. About 4,300 plant species can be found in Croatia, while in the Adriatic Sea there are about 400 edible fish, cephalopod, shrimp and shellfish species. Monuments which are part of world cultural and historical heritage have secured an important place for Croatia in European culture.

Most notable are the monument cities of Dubrovnik and Split.

There are over 1000 islands of which only about 50 are occupied.