About Croatia
Since 10 years ago, Croatia emerged in one of the most attractive tourist destinations in Europe. With its magnificent coastline, 1,185 islands, islets and reefs, Roman ruins and picturesque medieval villages, Croatia is more and more rising to the top world tourist destinations - alluring for fun and sun lovers, maritime places, domestic food and old historical legends.
After centuries of fighting for independence, and being sliced and diced geographically to suit political and ethnic divisions, Croatia has ended up arc-shaped. Its long Adriatic coastline forms the western leg, tapering to the unique ancient seaport of Dubrovnik in the south, while the land between the rivers Drava and Sava forms the northern section. The capital, Zagreb, has settled in-between.
The most prominent feature of Croatia's tourist industry is Dalmatian coastline, which is indented with rocky cliffs, peninsulas and islets. Numerous good quality hotels and marinas have been resurrected or constructed in the past few years, and the Croatian province has once again began to enjoy a tourist boom reminiscent of its heyday in the 1930s. There is a special atmosphere in side Croatian towns and villages, which are mostly built on the remains of ancient Greek, Roman and other colony settlements dating from the 4th century BC. This, within the hospitality and determined population, Mediterranean climate, scenic beauty and lush vegetation, is aiding Croatia's rise from the ashes of war into one of the greatest world tourist hot spots.
