special interest info

INFORMATION OF SPECIAL INTEREST
Important cultural events

- 2008 DUBROVNIK: Dubrovnik Summer Festival: July - August
- ĐAKOVO: Đakovo Festival of Folklore Life: June - July
- MOTOVUN: Motovun Film Festival: July-August
- OMIŠ: Festival of Dalmatian close-harmony singing groups (Klapa): July
- OSOR: Osor Music Evenings: July
- POREČ: Concerts of classical music in the Euphrasius’ Basilica: every Friday throughout the summer season
- PULA: Festival of Feature Films in Pula, July
- RAB: Rabska fjera – July
- RIJEKA: Rijeka Carnival: January – February
- SINJ: Alka Tournament: August
- SPLIT: Summer Festival: July - August
- ŠIBENIK: International Children’s Festival: June – July
- VARAŽDIN: “Špancirfest”–Town Festival:August–September; Varaždin Baroque Evenings: September – October
- VINKOVCI: Vinkovci Autumns - September
- ZADAR: Music Evenings in the church of St Donat: July
- ZAGREB: International Festival of New Theatre(EUROKAZ): June - July;
- International Folklore Festival: July; Promenade Concerts at Zrinjevac,
April – September;
International Puppet Theatre Festival – PIF, August - September; Zagreb Summer Evenings, June - August;
Animafest, November

Major museums:
Čakovec- Međimurje Museum
Dubrovnik – Dubrovnik Knežev dvor Museum (Ducal Palace Museum); Ethnographic Museum – Rupe; City Walls;
Dominican Monastery Museum;
Maritime Museum; Riznica
Cathedral; Home of playwright
Marin Držić; Aquarium
– Dubrovnik Biological Institute;
Franciscan Monastery
“Mala braća” (Little Brothers)
Museum; Museum – Orthodox
Christian Church Gornja Stubica - Museum of Peasant Uprisings
Gospić - Lika Museum. In nearby Smiljan is the Nikola
Tesla Memorial Centre Hlebine – Hlebine Gallery and the Ivan Generalić Museum Collection

Karlovac - City museum, the old burg of Dubovac
Klanjec - Gallery of the sculptor Antun Augustinčić
Krapina - Museum of Evolution and the archaeological locality of primeval man - the Hušnjakovo Site,
Ljudevit Gaj Museum Kumrovec - The Old Village - a unique ethno-museum with
original village dwellings; the birthplace and family home of
the late Josip Broz Tito Makarska - Malacological Museum – museum of fish,
crustaceans and shellfish;

City museums

Našice - Regional museum located in the Pejačević manor house.
Osijek - Museum of Slavonia
Pazin – Ethnographic Museum of Istria, and Pazin Town Museum
Pula - Archaeological Museum, Historical Museum of Istria, Amphitheatre (Arena)
Rijeka – Maritime and Historical Museum of the Croatian Littoral, Museum of Natural Sciences
Poreč– Regional Museum of the Poreč Area
Split - Museum of Croatian archaeological monuments, Archaeological Museum of
Split, Ivan Meštrović Gallery, City Museum, Ethnographic Museum, Natural History
Museum, Art Gallery, Naval Museum, Cathedral Treasury Trakošćan - Trakošćan Castle-Museum (large collection of ancient weapons)
Varaždin -Town Museum in the Old Town - Department of History and Entomological
Department, “The world of insects”; Gallery of Old and New masters
Zadar - Archaeological Museum, National Museum of Zadar, Permanent Display of Sacral Art, National Museum Zadar
Zagreb - Archaeological Museum, Ethnographic Museum, Croatian Museum of Naive Art, Modern Gallery, City of Zagreb Museum, Mimara Museum, Museum of Arts and
Crafts, Natural History Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters, Technical Museum, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Museum of Croatian History,
Dražen Petrović Memorial Museum Centre, Art Pavilion.

Major sanctuaries:

Marija Bistrica: Our Lady of Bistrica
Trsat: Our Lady of Trsat
Sinj: Our Miraculous Lady of Sinj
Aljmaš: Our Lady of Consolation
Krasno: Our Lady of Krasno
Karlovac-Dubovac:
St Joseph Lobor: Our Lady of the mountains
Ludbreg: Sacred Blood of Jesus
Remete: Our Lady of Remete
Solin: Our Lady of Island
Trški Vrh: Our Lady of Jerusalem
Vepric: Our Lady of Lourdes
Voćin: Our Lady of Voćin

Cultural-historical monuments:

There are numerous castles, and cultural and historical monuments in Croatia. The best known among them are: Diocletian’s Palace in Split, the Old Town of Trogir, Euphrasius’ Basilica in Poreč, Šibenik Cathedral, and the City of Dubrovnik – all listed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO The most beautiful and the most famous among the national parks in Croatia – Plitvice Lakes – is also under UNESCO protection.