Insight Guides - Croatia, Third Edition

How To Use This E-Book

Getting around the e-book

This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Croatia, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editors Choice categories of activies and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Croatia. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, hotels, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Croatia are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

Youll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Croatia. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors who use their on-the-ground experience to provide the very latest information; their local expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to stay and eat, so you can be confident that when we say a restaurant or hotel is special, we really mean it.

Like all Insight Guides , this e-book contains hundreds of beautiful photographs to inspire and inform your travel. We commission most of our own photography, and we strive to capture the essence of a destination using original images that you wont find anywhere else.

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Croatias Top 10 Attractions

With a wonderful coast and unspoiled countryside, Croatia offers the best of both worlds. Highlights of any trip will include visits to its galleries and great buildings, too.

Top Attraction 1

St Donat . Dating from the 9th century, Zadars magnificent, round pre-Romanesque church has exceptional acoustics that are exploited on summer musical evenings. Roman stones were used in its construction. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 2

Golden Horn beach (Zlatni rat) . This beautiful white pebble shore, near Bol on Bra island, is the most famous in Croatia. Nearly 600 metres/yds long, it is constantly shifting with the wind and tide. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 3

Stari Grad plain . The agrarian society that toils here on the beautiful, lavender-growing island of Hvar has not changed since the Greeks arrived in the 4th century BC. This cultural landscape has made it a Unesco World Heritage Site. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 4

Rovinj . The star of Istria is a fishing port with Venetian-inspired architecture. The highlight of a visit is simply exploring the old town and wandering around its narrow lanes, visiting its galleries and cafs. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 5

Diocletians Palace . Eat, sleep and drink in the footsteps of a Roman emperor in Split. Between AD 295 and 305 Diocletian built his waterfront retirement home here on a grand scale. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 6

Plitvice Lakes National Park . An 8km (5-mile) stretch of dams, caves, waterfalls, of 16 lakes and countless streams and brooks are at the heart of this water wonderland full of wildlife, including wolves and 126 bird species. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 7

Varadin . A musical town with wonderful Baroque flourishes both in its architecture and its concert performances. A town guard and uniformed burghers love to show their Habsburg heritage. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 8

Dubrovnik . The Pearl of the Adriatic doesnt disappoint. Youve seen it in pictures now go and walk the walls, and find out all about this fabled maritime republic. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 9

Nave Art . The first museum in the world dedicated to it opened in Zagreb in 1952, and is still attracting attention today. Check out, too, the gallery in Hlebine, where many of the painters came from. For more information, .