Croatia

Croatia is a land with very different climatic proportions.

From the cold continental to the mild Mediterranean climate Croatia offers a unique spectrum of different temperature zones in comparison with the rest of Europe.

The length of the Croatian coast is 5.835 km, of which the length of mainland part of the coast is 1.777 km, and the length of coastline on the islands is 4.058 km. Croatia has 1.185 islands of which only 66 inhabited. The largest is island of Cres, then Krk, and the island of Pag is the fifth-largest.

The Adriatic coast is one of the sunniest in the Mediterranean with an average of 2.600 hours of sunshine a year, and the sea temperature in summer reaches 27°C.

Satellite photos of Croatian Coast

Zadar

Zadar is a city rich in spirutual and material culture, as well as in a touristic identity created in the present. It was created around the Roman forum, a city inside well-kept walls, a city of old Croatian monuments. Full of archieves, museums and libraries, it is the keeper of literary and musical treasure, it is the city inside with the oldest University among Croatians (1396).
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Its attractiveness is due greatly to its fantastic natural position in the very middle of the Adriatic coast, and to the four National Parks surrounding it: Plitvica Lakes, Paklenica mountain, the unique Rivera Krka waterfalls and a string of wondrous islands called Kornati. No less attractive are the nature Parks of Telascica, the canyon of the Zrmanja River and the largest natural lake in Croatia –Lake Vrana in the vicinity of Biograd.
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