The people of Split love to walk and jog along this steep, wooded peninsula, where paths criss-cross the crest. Its slopes are home to an elegant residential area, as well as some of the city’s finest museums.

Lastovo, the furthest island from the mainland along with Vis , is also one of the smallest, measuring just 11km by 5km. Like Vis, it was home to a military base and was off-limits to tourists until 1989. According to tradition it has 46 islands, 46..

Long and pointed as a dagger, this island off the Velebit coast is quite unique, with its harsh desert of white stone dissected by a thousand low walls. The island’s attractions include beaches hidden between the rare grassy slopes grazed by sheep an..

This small, wild and steep island is, along with Lastovo, the furthest (45km) from the mainland. Fortunately, it has yet to be disfigured by big hotels and is slowly opening up to sustainable tourism. The island lives principally from fishing and win..

This tiny medieval city stands on an island at the heart of one of the many harbours and sheltered lagoons along the Zadar coast. Nin’s fortune came from salt production, the traditional methods of which are still used. Saltwater is first pumped to f..

The island of Cres, situated in the gulf of Kvarner between Istria and the islands of Krk and Rab , is among the longest in Croatia. 58km separate Porozina (the arrival point for those coming from Istria), from Osor, linked in turn to the sister-i..

The ancient name of Aspyrtes, given by the Greeks to the islands of Losinj and Cres , is linked to the myth of Medea, the magician so in love with Jason that she helped him steal the Golden Fleece. According to the legend, Medea killed her own broth..

Covering an area of 409km 2 , the biggest island in the Adriatic is not without charm: a stunning landscape, tiny hilltop villages, excellent wine, and a medieval “capital”. It has great symbolic value for Croats: it is here that the Baska stele, the..

The Croatian hinterland stretches to the north of Medvednica, as far as the Slovenian border. This undulating area to the north of Zagreb, the “capital” of which is Krapina, is dissected by the north-south Zagreb-Maribor highway, which follows the Kr..

Attacks by land were the hardest to withstand, hence the thickness of the walls here. To bolster the defences, a fore-wall and defensive moat were built. The most interesting views of the walled town can be enjoyed from here, with the chequered str..

This is the most attractive walk on Uglian, an otherwise rather unremarkable island facing Zadar which has remained true to its agricultural heritage (olive oil production). Along the walk, enjoy superb views across the rest of the island, Zadar, the..

Also known as the “House of Petar Hektorovic”, this palace is the most fascinating monument in the city. Designed as a fortress by this poet, scion of one of Hvar’s most influential families, its austere façade conceals a marvellous inner garden , l..

Built in the 17C, this palace acquired its impressive twin-coloured Rococo façade, adorned with medallions and a lovely balcony, when it came into the possession of the noble Sermage family in 1759. Pass under the porch to enter the courtyard, embell..

Built in 1764, this is probably the finest Baroque palace in Zagreb, with its wrought-iron window and balcony railings and attractive carriage entrance. Today it houses the Museum of Croatian History , which hosts temporary exhibitions on a variety ..

Lined with Baroque and Classical palaces, this is one of the most charming streets in Gradec. The left side (nos 20-22) is flanked by the former Clares convent , which today houses the Zagreb City Museum . At nº 18, the People’s House (1838) boas..

Consecrated in 1175, this church is a superb example of Italian Romanesque art, particularly the apse and lateral façade. The rows of blind arches and the series of fine columns suggest the influence of Lombardian and Tuscan artists. The interior has..

Gothic in origin (note the buttressed chevet which has preserved its original structure), the church adjoining the monastery was largely rebuilt and extended in the Baroque style between 1719 and 1763: the façade was restored, and side chapels and an..

The emblematic Pula monument perches on a hill overlooking the port, beyond the ramparts of the Roman city. Built in the early 1C, then extended under the Flavians (69-96), this is one of the best-preserved in the Roman world. Its originality lies in..

Among the items in this museum of sacred art, note the fine 15C paintings by Blaz Jurjev , or those by Italian artists, the painted crucifixes and the precious manuscripts, including the Trogir evangelistary and the Trogir lectionary in its si..

The aim of this exhibition space is to raise awareness of and teach us about war photography, and to show war as it really is: raw, venal and terrifying, as seen through the eyes of famous photographers, and stripped bare of aesthetics or ideology. R..