Croatia

Croatia boasts of a beautiful and extensive coastline and is home to well conserved coastal Renaissance towns. No wonder that in the year 2005, over 10 million tourists visited the country. Usually, tourists love to be passengers in the flotillas of yachts that run along several stretches of the coastline.

There are ample areas for sight seeing in the capital Zagreb, the former Baroque capital Varazdin that includes a whole array of medieval castles. The natural environs and the ecology is of great value for tourists, in all eight areas across the country that have been designated as national parks and the landscape of these regions has been protected from any artificial development. Although the flourishing tourist industry's growth was stalled by the war in the early 1990s, but now it has again caught up with its lost tempo and millions of tourists visit the country to relax and thrill themselves.

The Croatian culture has a long history of thirteen centuries that can be seen evidenced in the form of numerous archaeological remnants of castles, forts, amphitheaters and other fixtures of historical value. The country has also been home to many historical inventors including three Nobel laureates. Some of the world's first fountain pens were manufactured in Croatia. Another interesting aspect is about clothing; Croatians have a long history of dressing up with the necktie (cravat). The culture has a well-established artistic, literary and musical tradition and not to miss are the country's cuisines. Loads of thrills await you on your visit to “the Mediterranean as it once was.”