Unless you studied a map of this small but eventful country, up close and in large scale, you would not know that it has a coastline, but it does. Just 15 miles long, it cuts a small slice out of Croatia’s southern Dalmatian coast. The border crossing there is perfunctory, though, so for the tourist […]
Here is reputed to be the culinary center of Croatia. Its wines, while surely adequate, are not up to the standards of the southern regions around Hvar and Dubrovnik, but its cuisine is superb. While I was there, the truffle season was at its peak. Sniffed out by trained dogs, these tasty fungi, […]
Much of my time in Croatia, I spent in and around the city of Split with visits to nearby islands, including Hvar, said to be the epicenter of Dalmatian tourism, and Brac. Croatia’s second largest city is a remarkable town for the reason that the Roman emperor Diocletian chose to build his retirement home there, now a UNESCO World Heritage site. […]
Off the rocky shores of this jagged coastline is the large island of Korcula, a cluster of smaller ones, including pastoral Mljet, half of which is a pristine national park, and the mountainous Peljesac Peninsula. The area produces some of Croatia’s finest wines, […]
There is not much to be said about the city that has not been glowingly reported before. Lord Byron called it the Pearl of the Adriatic, George Bernard Shaw said it was Paradise on Earth, and a general under Napoleon dubbed it, just before capturing it, an Oasis of Civilization. […]