Attractions

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Lake Vrana Nature Park

Lake Vrana, located in Dalmatia, is the largest lake in Croatia. It has been declared a nature park, a protected area in Croatia. It is located in Zadar and Šibenik-Knin counties, between the towns and municipalities of Benkovac, Pirovac, Pakoštane, Stankovci and Tisno. Visitors can enter the park from several places, so there are three entrances to the park (Crkvine, Kamenjak or Prosika port). The most ideal way to get to the lake, no matter which entrance we choose, is to come by car or to organize transport or a tour in advance. The nature park extends over a huge area of ​​about 57 km², the area of ​​the lake itself is about 30 square kilometers in size, the surface of the water is only 0.1 meter above sea level, and its maximum depth is 4 meters. The lake is located in a karst vall...

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Velebit Nature Park

Velebit may not be the highest, but it is certainly the largest mountain and mountain range in Croatia. It offers a whole range of geographical, natural, animal and plant differences. Velebit is thus home to the Velebit Nature Park and two national parks (Paklenica National Park and North Velebit National Park). The Velebit Nature Park is thus the largest protected area in Croatia, stretching over 2,000 square kilometers. In 1978, the park was included in the UNESCO list of international biosphere reserves. Also, what is very important is that this nature park is under the protection of UNESCO as part of the World Biosphere Reserve project. Velebit Nature Park offers numerous opportunities for active tourism, and hiking or cycling is recommended. Also, educational excursions are availab...

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Telašćica National Park

Telašćica is a bay on the southeastern part of Dugi otok, in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea. It has been a protected natural area since 1980, and since 1988 it has been declared a nature park. The location of the park is extremely popular and nautically frequent because there are three more Croatian national parks nearby, namely Kornati National Park, Paklenica National Park and Krka National Park. In addition, Vrana Lake Nature Park and Velebit Nature Park are also nearby. With more than two and a half thousand sunny hours per year, the average annual temperature is around 16 °C. The area is full of wild and marine animals. Telašćica is about 10 kilometers long and 160 to 1,800 meters wide. It is a deep bay dotted with rocks, islets and coves. The cliffs of Dugi Otok, locally ca...

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North Velebit National Park

The Northern Velebit National Park is a national park in Croatia that covers 109 km2 of the northern part of Velebit (the largest mountain massif in Croatia). Due to the rich diversity of this part of Velebit, the area was turned into a nature reserve in 1999, and in September of the same year it received the status of a national park. It is important to emphasize that the entire Velebit is a "nature park" (lower category of protection), and its individual parts are also national parks. In 2017, the beech forests within the national park were added to the UNESCO list of world heritage known as ancient and primeval beech forests Carpathians and other regions of Europe because of their testimony of the ecological history of forest dynamics within Europe since the last Ice Age. The park ar...

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National park Plitvice Lakes

Plitvice Lakes National Park is one of the oldest and largest national parks in Croatia. In 1979, the Plitvice Lakes National Park was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List for its extraordinary and picturesque series of travertine lakes, caves and waterfalls. The national park was founded in 1949 and is located in the mountainous karst area of ​​central Croatia, on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. An important north-south road that passes through the area of ​​the national park connects the interior of Croatia with the Adriatic coastal area. The protected area covers 296.85 square kilometers, and about 90% of this area belongs to Lika-Senj County, while the remaining 10% belongs to Karlovac County. The Plitvice Lakes represent a continuous chain of 16 lakes and many waterfa...

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Paklenica National Park

Paklenica National Park includes the canyon of the karst river Paklenica. It is located near Starigrad and Zadar in northern Dalmatia, on the southern slopes of Velebit. It received the status of a national park in 1949, making it our second oldest national park. The park itself consists of two canyons, Mala and Velika Paklenica. Velika Paklenica canyon is 14 kilometers long and 500 to 800 meters wide. In its narrowest part, the canyon is only 50 m wide. Vertical cliffs rise above both sides of the canyon to a height of over 700 meters. The Mala Paklenica canyon is smaller in size, and the river that flows through it is considerably less powerful. It is 12 kilometers long and 400 to 500 meters wide. In its narrowest part, it is only 10 meters wide, while the surrounding cliffs rise to a...

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Krka National Park

The Krka National Park is one of the Croatian national parks that got its name from the river Krka that surrounds it, and it is also one of the two Croatian National Parks consisting of lakes and waterfalls. Krka is actually a river in Dalmatia, the southernmost province of Croatia, which is shaped into beautiful waterfalls due to the local terrain. It is located along the middle-lower reaches of the Krka River in central Dalmatia, in the Šibenik-Knin County, downstream in the area of ​​Miljevac and just a few kilometers northeast of the town of Šibenik. It covers a total area of ​​109 km², within which the Krka River has 7 travertine barriers and a unique ecosystem. It was founded in order to protect the Krka River, and is intended primarily for scientific, cultural, educational, recre...

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Kornati National Park

The Kornati archipelago is an isolated island group located in the central part of the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea. The Kornati archipelago covers an area of ​​about 320 square kilometers and includes about 150 islands, islets and rocks. Most of the Kornati island group was declared a national park in 1980. Geographically, Kornati can be divided into two main groups, Upper Kornati, which is closer to the mainland, and Lower Kornati, which mostly faces the open sea in the southwest. Kornati National Park occupies an area of ​​218 square kilometers and includes a total of 89 islands, islets and rocks. Today, 620 land owners are registered in Kornati National Park, of which only 24 have registered residence inside the Park. The main economic activity in the entire area is traditional...

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