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Sailing | Diving | Islands | Beach | Cultural discovering | Walking/visits | Naturism
1. Sailing
Typical ports and harbors, dip sea and good weather conditions: Croatia is really the country of sailing. A lot of competitions are available from Pula to Dubrovnik, a lot of small islands have a paradisiac side for pleasure time. The adriatic side has also 48 marinas with 12500 rings in sea and 7200 in land. The biggest ones have a technical support, engines, petrol station, shops and cafés restaurants. In the most of marinas, it is also possible to rent a boat and learn in the sailing school.
Well known for the clean area and cristallin water, the adriatic water has a lot of beautiful and wonderful diving sites. With a light blue water, dream cricks, animals and fishes caracterize the croatian sites. There are also few savage and natural island, small islands and rocks: Croatia has 1185 islands, within only 66 unlived.
Croatia is also the country of islands with 1185 islands and small islands, within 66 unlived, wait for you ! Light blue water, quiet beach with sand or little pebbles, small villages with many beautiful treasures are waiting for you to discover its. The good ralations between islands and land with ferries have an easy way access. A lot are available, between the Elaphites, the beautiful and small island Lokrum, Mljet, where Ulysse, from the legend, has been retained by Calypso, Brac with a soft area with trees and pastures, Hvar and her typical mediterranean scenes, Korcula and her beautiful pastures, Kornati, with about 150 islands within 300 km2, Kvarner's islands, the easiest to get in car from Italy and a lot more...
The best beaches of Croatia are located in Dalmatia. In a beautiful scenery, they are the cultural patrimony of towns and villages of the coastal side, one of the best thing in the region. De Brela up north, Gradac down south, the beautiful riviera of Makarska has a lot of creeks and beaches with trees. On the Brac island, with pastures, trees, vineyards, there are many nice pebbles beaches as " Zlatni rat " for example. On the way to beaches with sand, pebbles, there are very nice colors, perfums and typical scenes of the Mediterranee sea.
Croatia has a lot of architectural sites classified by UNESCO organism, and also has old antic sites. Dubrovnik, has the charm of her very old pedestrian town (Stari Grad), with all arounded by big huge fences from (XIIIe-XVIe siècle), belongs more than 2km, and large of 25m and 16 towers. Marber place, strong ways, high houses, churches, Palace, fontains, museums, nice walks around and nice view. In Sibenik, forms and elements of Saint-Jacques cathédrale is representing exactly the Gothic art and Renaissance. The Trogir town, with the grid map of streets of the city is from the Hellenistic time, is also splendid. In Porec, the basilique, atrium, baptister and epicopal palace is beautiful. Split, with her old Diocletians Palace, built in the end of the 3rd century and the beginning of the 4th century are really impressional. All the rest of the classified town include roman churches, mediaval fences, gothic palace from the 15th century. The rest of the town has also roman churches, medieval fences, gothic palace from the 15th century. The grand ampitheater from Pula has been built under Augustus king and has been bigger under Vespasien, a fugure of six biggest roman ampitheater still safe. More than 20 000 persons went to the gladiators fightings after 404 years post Christ, and still today, there are a lot of demonstrations and festivals over there.
In Croatia, the nature life is a queen : the country has in fact 8 national parks and 10 natural parks which you will be enjoyed for walks, green tourism etc... There is for example the Risnjak national park, in the heart of Velebit, is the first one which offer altitude walks with nights on the top. You will see animals and plants as : bears, wolves, savage goat... In Plitvice, there are 16 wonderful lakes which came from one to the others and to the next one... in in the middle of the forest. Or the walls in the Paklenica national park, the Krka beautiful water cascades, Brijuni island reserve, 150 unlived islands of the Kornati national park, Mljet island under protection wher u can do some bicycling, kayaks, canoe ...
Between islands and the adriatic coast, there are a lot of beaches just for naturist people. There are also some special centres with modern constructions and bungalows, restaurants or campings. There are a lot in Istria. On Rab island, there is also a thermal center.from 1880. You can also doing it on lots of others, without any troubles, people are very free, as on Lokrum island nearly Dubrovnik.
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