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Bathing opportunity on the seaside - KRKA National Park - Plitvice Lakes - Zadar

Bathing opportunity on the seaside

Zaton tourist village lies at a distance of 10 km from Vir. Owing to its sandy seaside and services it is ideal for both families and young people.

The sandy seashore of Sabunike lies at 8 km from Vir that also provides both families and young people with excellent recreation owing to its restaurants as well.

KRKA National Park

The Park lies in a wonderful valley to the north from Sibenik. The Krka river flows among rocks and it has built interesting terraces. The deposited limestone appears in the form of stairs laces where the creek seethes further. The flora and fauna of the wonderful valley are also individual.

We are talking about one of the richest, most wonderful and most valuable natural area of Europe the environment of which is valuable from the aspect of monuments as well.KRKA - There are the archaeological findings from the Roman era and the Middle Ages but it is proven that people lived here already in the Paleolithic. Monasteries and the ruins of castles decorate the hills embracing the National Park all around.

There is no car traffic in the park, the visitors are taken by regular bus lines to the valley. If you park your car at the entrance at Skadrin, then you can arrive at the great waterfall or if you start from the car park at Lozovac, then you can access the waterfalls either by bus or on foot.

Plitvice Lakes

They belong to the most beautiful sights of Europe, located in a valley and surrounded by hills covered with woods.

The highest-lying lake of the system of lakes can be found at a height of 600 m and the water, stepping out of it bed and taking an adventure-ride all over innumerable torrents, over a distance of 7,2 km, arrives at the last lake lying at a height of 150 m. The water tramps over the series of 3-50m-high torrents in branches reaching away into various directions and the water of one lake flows into the other lake in this way. The two smaller lakes - lying like stairs - of Plitvice Lakes are connected by 92 waterfalls.

The Plitivce Lakes were declared National Park in 1949 and in 1979 the region was taken by UNESCO in the list of world heritage. Several protected animals live on its area: beers, wolves, otters, wood stock-owl. The tourist load of the park and almost 2000 employees insured the creation of an attractive park and well-maintained service facilities look forward to the visitors.

The exceptional sights of the Park are the karst caves, the Large Cave, the Black Cave and the Tomin Tree Cave.

Zadar

Zadar is also called "the little Rome of Croatia" - owing to the almost 3000-year history of the town, its exceptional sacral buildings and multi-coloured system of cultural traditions.

There are innumerable sights in the town, some of them from the antiquity. A part of the town wall was built by the Romans and another one was made in the Middle Ages. Most parts of the wall goes back to the 16th century.

The most famous sights of the town are the Citadel, the Saint Franz Church, and the pearl of Roman architecture in Dalmatia, the Anastasia Church. Its most famous church was built upon the order of Donate Archbishop at the start of the 800's. Next to it, the sanctuary and tower of the Saint Anastasia Cathedral can be found.

The world-famous urban values of Zadar are completed more by the picturesquely sectioned shore parts of the more than 1000 km-long Zadar Riviera, with clear-watered bathing shores and around 300 smaller and larger islands.

Zadar is also the closer country of origin of the Maraschino liqueur made of the flavoursome fruits of the sour cherry plantations and also the world-famous Croatian basketball players.