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Local people from Korcula, living on the island surrounded by the sea, has a long steady tradition in sea fishing. That tradition is going on from the ancient times when fishing was a important source of food finding.
Fishing is particularly developed in villages Lumbarda and Vela Luka. Lumbarda is famous for, so called, ‘ small fishermen’ - people who fish as their hobby and as source of side income, while Vela Luka has a long professional fishing tradition, that includes even a sardine factory. Fisherman’s from Vela Luka fish the whole Adriatic and their catching are sold in many Croatian towns and exported abroad too.
If you come and have a look at Korcula harbour, one will see a lot of boats owned by local people, used for fishing and excursions around the islands SKOJI.

If one has no boat, one can fish from the shore too. There are various good spots for angle fishing , such as Riva ( harbor in front of Hotel Korcula) or Nova Riva ( harbour on the easter side of Korcula Old Town)
There is a fishing shop in Korcula right in the very centre of Korcula Town where one can buy various fishing equipment - bites, floats, angles, hooks, fishing rods, etc….

Source: korculainfo.com

An world-renowned international festival of puppet theatre; from its very founding in 1967 the event has been open to all forms of expression in puppetry and to all the techniques, genres and themes of puppetry.
Many puppet shows - from traditional ones to entirely modern experiments - for both children and adults, are held in Zagreb theatres, streets and squares during the PIF.
Two panels of judges cover the program: a children’s panel and an expert international panel that grants awards for best play overall (the PIF Grand Prize is named after Milan Cecuk, a giant of Croatian puppetry) and for individual achievement.
PIF is part of the European Festival Network by way of UNIMA.

PIF has for several years now presented those countries with a strong traditional in puppetry. Following presentations of Bulgarian, French, Israeli, Czech, Polish, Slovakian, Hungarian, Belarussian and Russian puppetry, this year will feature Slovakian puppetry

Taken from: Croatian National Tourist Board

The Croatian motorway management company, Hrvatske Autoceste, invested nearly 825,000 Kuna, not including VAT, in informative billboards, meant to inform drivers during the tourism season of roadwork and possible obstacles that they may expect on their way.
The said value was paid for printing and renting advertisement space. The billboards, printed in Croatian and English, have been posted on 300 boards along main roads, for a two-month period.
The posting of the billboards is a part of the activities that HAC prepare each year, in order to ensure maximal safety and traffic flow on the roads they manage, as well as on parts being reconstructed or built.

Source: daily.tportal.hr

“Jesen u Baranji” (Autumn in Baranja), is held in the first weekend in September in the town of Beli Manastir. It is a cultural, economic and tourist manifestation which unites the work of all association in our town, exhibition of handicrafts, exhibition of paintings, concerts for the young, tradesman fair, folklore review, competition in cooking “fiš paprikaša” (a traditional spicy fish stew).

Source: Croatian National Tourist Board 

Each year, the Croatian festival stage introduces more and more diversities and offers higher quality performances. Nine years in a row, the new standards have been repeatedly set by ŠPANCIRFEST, the festival taking place on the most beautiful open stage in Croatia - the Varaždin Baroque city core. This year the stage will open from 24 August to 2 September. Although festivals and their concepts have always been considered to respect the continuity, ŠPANCIRFEST and each of its productions travels far beyond the borders of expectations and, in these ten days, its only beacon yearns to transform Varaždin into an area of endless joy and countless smiles.
This is ŠPANCIRFEST 2007: 10 days, 7 stages, 246 events, VINDILAND, 130 exhibitors, crowds of people caught into the whirlpool of the festival …

Source: Croatian National Tourist Board

Croatia’s premier cultural event: an international festival of music, theatre and dance in a city with a legacy of centuries of civilisation.
The unique ambient of the closed and open-air stages of the Renaissance and Baroque city of Dubrovnik are home, during the Games, to about 80 plays, ballets, operas and musical performances, promotions of literary works, exhibitions, recitals of poetry, Off-Theatre shows and much more.

The Dubrovnik Summer Games were founded in 1950 and have since 1956 been a member of the EFA, the European Festivals Association.

Source: Culturenet.hr 

The Amadeo club theater-music scene first started in the summer of 2000 in the atrium of the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb’s Upper Town, in the very heart of the city, which is a unique monument space home to many of the most important cultural institutions in the City of Zagreb and the Republic of Croatia.
The Croatian Natural History Museum was not chosen for the summer scene by change. Historically, this is a type of homage to the first public theater in Zagreb, the famed Amadeo Theater that operated here from 1797 to 1834. In the present day, this is an ideal chamber theatrical-musical space with beautiful architecture and fantastic acoustic, representing a fabulous framework for theatrical performances and concerts and various multimedia events.
The programme committee of the Amadeo Scene has set high criteria in the selection of the musical programme and theater performances. In the musical segment, this is an inclination for classical music concerts with a special emphasis on performances by talented young musicians, jazz concerts with affirmed Croatian and foreign musicians and ethnic and popular music concerts. Since 2002, the Amadeo Scene has put on the Evening of premiers by Croatian composers - performances of works commissioned for the Amadeo Scene, thereby stimulating Croatian musical creation.
Over the past six seasons, the Amadeo Scene stage has seen 11 theater premiers, 12 premiers of pieces by Croatian composers commissioned for the Amadeo Scene, more than 300 theater performances, classical music and jazz concerts, and film programs (Motovun in Zagreb 2001), performed by some of the most distinguished names in Croatian theater and music life and selected foreign artists (American Dexter Community Band, a world jazz great, American Clare Fischer, the Cuban ensemble Ars Longa, Japanese theater ensemble Urushi, Amsterdam jazz group Saskia Laroo Band, and many others). The performances have been met with numerous positive reviews and critiques in the printed and electronic media. We are very proud that the selective Zagreb audience has felt the powerful energy of the artists who have selflessly shared all the risk of promoting a new open scene, recognizing within it a place that allows for a premium theater and musical experience.

Source: Croatian National Board

Zagreb, the Croatian capital is an ever more popular destination for tourists, whose visits are increasing by double-digit percentages from month to month. In the first half of the year the city was visited by over 260,000 visitors for about 500,000 overnight stays, up in arrivals by 15 percent from the same period last year, and by 14 percent in overnight stays. Along with our traditional guests from Germany and Italy, Zagreb has also become a popular destination for tourists coming from the USA, France, Japan, Russia and Great Britain. To the sharp rise internationally in interest for trips to cities (city break), Zagreb has answered with an intensive development of its offer adapted to this segment of consumers. Already known for the quality of its hotel offer and hospitality services, the Croatian capital is developing new kinds of welcomes for its guests.

The traditional ways of touring the city have seen a new additional of late as they have in other tourism capitals across the world – the Segway City Tour. With these ever more popular vehicles it is possible to organize sightseeing of the city in three different packages: the Zagreb Welcome Tour which includes a tour of some 20 locations in the wider city core, the Zagreb All Around Tour – a wider sightseeing, and the Zagreb Leisure Tour for those interested in seeing more distant locations by appointment – a tour of Maksimir Park, the Jarun Sports & Recreation centre and the like. These are all, of course, tours with guides and preceded by a short Segway training course.

Along with the main tourist information centre on the city’s central square (Trg bana Josipa Jelacica), a seasonal information point has been opened (up to the end of September) at the central rail station. Visitors to Zagreb will also meet walking tourist information staff on the city’s squares and streets to help them find their way around and other information like on where to get a bite to eat, what to see … The walking information staff are recognizable by their distinct blue outfit bearing a large letter “I”. They speak English, German, Italian, French and Spanish, and also Portuguese, Dutch and even Hebrew.

They travel around the city in pairs, moving along four predefined routes in the wider city core and always carry the appropriate promotional materials. Zagreb is also, for the eighth year running, offering its guests a one-day and three-day Zagreb Card. Purchasing the card provides privileges and savings for various services from 10 do even as high as 50 percent. Besides free use of the municipal public transport, the discounts are also good at almost all of the museums, theatres, concert halls, hotels, restaurants, shops and various services in the city. Also on the list are those offering sports, medicine, vehicle repair services and car rentals. The card, available at over 40 locations in the city and in on-line sales, also provides discounts when paying for various events in the city and may also be used in the wider Zagreb metropolitan area. In order to provide guests and business partners as much information as possible on its points of interest the City of Zagreb Tourist Board recently – as the first to do so in Croatia – printed a practical Zagreb City Break edition.

Source: Croatian Tourist Board

The Moslavina region is a new tourism brand on the Croatian market. The branding of Moslavina is a part of the 1.6-million-kuna CARDS project “Activating local potentials and resources of Southern Moslavina and the Lonjsko polje Nature Park”. The branding project was launched by the city of Kutina and the municipalities of Lipovljani, Popovaca and Velika Ladina with the European Union providing assistance with 80% grants through CARDS 2003. Four areas have been selected as part of the region’s brand. Cuisine (wine, namely the indigenous type known as škrlet and carp barbequed on a forked branch), cycling with over 250 km of trails, walks in pristine nature and cultural heritage (late baroque period churches and Roman-period excavations. The project started with quality research - focus groups in which there were pensioners, families with children, youth and tourist professionals from three counties in the region. Most of those surveyed opted for the development of rural, active and cultural tourism. The habits and needs of tourists were subsequently researched. Among the most attractive destinations in Moslavina, in their opinion, were Lonjsko polje, the Moslavacka gora highlands, the churches of Moslavina and the Roman-period excavations.

Source: Croatian Tourist Board

Croatia has a big friend in Bavaria which supports its efforts to become the 28th member of the European Union as soon as possible.

Edmund Stoiber and Ivo Sanader, the premier of Bavaria and Croatia, have met on Sunday in Split, Croatia. At a press conference they stressed their good economic relations and the belief that Croatia will enter the European Union by 2009.

Sanader said that Croatia is changing on its way towards Euro-Atlantic integrations, and has transformed from a user of services to a provider. The naming of Miomir Zuzul as an emissary to the OSCE as an intermediary between Russia and Georgia confirmed the good international position of Croatia, says Sanader.

The Bavarian premier Edmund Stoiber said to the press in Split, that Croatia has a big and honest friend in Bavaria who strongly supports it, and will continue to support it in its efforts on becoming the 28th member of the European Union as soon as possible.

Stoiber also stressed that Croatia is a friendly country that is open to Euro-Atlantic integrations, and that the negotiations with Croatia and Turkey are not taking place on the same track, and that Croatia is at a great advantage.

- Croatia has fulfilled all of the conditions, and has achieved great progress – said Stoiber.

Both of the premiers have evaluated the cooperation between Bavaria and Croatia as very good, even though they need to be strengthened in all of the economic sectors. Croatia has increased its exports to Bavaria by 20%, and trade between Bavaria and Croatia has reached 700 million Euros, said Stoiber.

Source: Javno.com