Attractive Cultural-Historical Heritage

Croatia is indeed unique, not only for its crystal clear, clean blue sea, but also for a thousand years of different cultures that have replaced each other and sometimes assimilated in these areas. The Adriatic Sea is not only a deep gulf in the Mediterranean cut into the Continent of Europe thereby creating most economical trade route between Europe and the East, it is also the cradle of ancient civilizations. Croatia abounds with cultural-historical monuments dating from all periods due to turbulent historical events and interweaving of influence of various cultures. Consequences of Mediterranean cultures, numerous monuments dating from Antiquity, from the Roman period and the early Middle Ages, Romanesque sacral heritage and a series of preserved characteristic Mediterranean urban complexes all these characteristic its coast. Continental Croatia constitutes part of the Central European circle and is prominent due numerous prehistoric finds of world importance, as well as to old towns, fortresses, burghs and castles dating from the late Middle Ages, and cultural monuments and architecture of the Baroque period.