The Primorje-Gorski Kotar County plans to significantly enhance its cultural tourism by 2021, owing to the project “The routes of the Frankopans”, designed to revitalise 20 buildings that were owned or are connected with that Croatian noble family and that are presented in a photography monograph launched in Zagreb...
Hydroelectric power plant Ozalj “Munjara” is the oldest coniferous hydroelectric power plant in Croatia, built and commissioned in 1908 to supply Karlovac lighting. The power plant was built on a natural waterfall in the center of Ozalj and after more than one hundred years it still produces electricity. It...
Throughout the 60’s legendary movies about the adventures of the Indian Apache chief Winnetou, based on Karl May’s novels, were filmed in Croatia. Numerous Croatian areas were chosen for the filming including Nature Park Velebit – Tulove grede ridge and Prezid pass. Pierre Brice, the French actor who embodied...
Castle Bosiljevo – medieval castle owned by family Frankopan is a very important part of Croatian history. Built around 15 century Old Town Bosiljevo had a very turbulent history (you can read about it HERE), but nothing compares to his present. These photos, captured by our Associate Gordana Markušić,...
How to develop creative tourist products to attract visitors to Gacka? First and second year students from the Edward Bernays University College for management in communication came on an excursion to Gacka this summer, as part of an experience-based learning course at the „Management and marketing of a tourist...
We all know that the great inventor Nikola Tesla was born in Lika in Croatia, “at the stroke of midnight” in 1856 during a summer storm. Nikola’s Baptism Certificate, in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, states that he was born on June 28, and christened the very next...
In the second century BCE, the Romans focused their attention on Lika, the homeland of the Iapydes. They were drawn to the rich ore mines, as well as fields suitable for building roads towards central Europe. Lika, however, was not at all easy to conquer. The brave Iapydes held...
The wedding of 16-year old Ana Katarina Frankopan and 21-year old Petar Zrinski in 1641 is known as one of the most important weddings in the history of Karlovac and Ozalj but also in the history of Croatia. The marriage that unfortunately ended tragically, led to a close alliance...
On this date in 1871, Eugen Kvaternik, a Croatian politician and revolutionary and a number of companions were killed as rebels. A patriot who had long aspired to detach Croatia from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, found enough traction to give it a go during the late 19th century’s rise of...
The Primorje-Gorski Kotar County plans to significantly enhance its cultural tourism by 2021, owing to the project “The routes of the Frankopans”, designed to revitalise 20 buildings that were owned or are connected with that Croatian noble family and that are presented in a photography monograph launched in Zagreb...
