Travel News for Your next Holiday & Vacation in Croatia | Croatia Blog » Istria http://www.croatia-blog.net/en Croatia Travel Blog provides everything you need to plan your holiday in Croatia including maps, list of beaches, accommodation, culture, transport and weather in Croatia. Learn about popular places to visit in Croatia. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:06:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Poreč – Valamar hotels among the best 100 http://www.croatia-blog.net/en/porec-%e2%80%93-valamar-hotels-among-the-best-100/ http://www.croatia-blog.net/en/porec-%e2%80%93-valamar-hotels-among-the-best-100/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:23:39 +0000 Administrator http://www.croatia-blog.net/en/?p=349

The all-inclusive hotels of Poreč, Valamar Club Tamaris and Valamar Tamaris Residence are this year's laureates of TUI Holly 2010., the most prestigious award that is awarded by one of the world's largest tourist operators TUI. With this the Valamar hotels are now included in the top 100 best hotels in the world, in which TUI guests stay at. TUI established the award in1994. and rewards it exclusively on the grounds of expressed satisfaction of its guests in the period of one year. This year competing were 905 world hotels, who to qualify, had to summon at least 35 positive grades given by guests upon arriving home from their holiday. TUI is one of the world's biggest tourist and transport companies with its headquarters in Hannover, Germany. Recommendations for hotels Porec.  Apartments Porec
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No gourmet in the world can be called one if they have never in their life tried truffles, the gourmet jewel of Istria. Truffles, mushrooms that grow underground are a trademark of Istria, and the people of Istria show their appreciation of it by jelaously guarding the recipes of dishes with truffles. The opportunity to get to know the real wealth of the truffle in every possible gastro combination is presented at Truffle days, which are held accross Istria during the autumn.

The truffle is an unusual, tuberous growth that grows underground, with an unsightly shape and an intensive odor. Tartuf je neobična, gomoljasta izraslina koja raste pod zemljom, neugledna oblika i intenzivnog mirisa. This rare and expensive tuber that grows in the fertile Istrian soil is a real culinary delight. The Istrian white truffle is one of the most respected in the world.

The culinary value of the truffle was discovered by old Romans; during the five centuries long rule of Venice, Motovun forrest carried the name St. Mark's forrest and only individuals were allowed to remove truffles from its soil. With tha changing of rulers and the arrival od Austro-Hungary, the truffle could only reach one destination – the Viennesse court. However, even up until today it has been considered an exclusive delicacy – a peak of gastromomy. It is not visible above ground and can only be found by specially trained dogs or pigs.

Istria has two types of soil; intensive dark red on the coast and grey, greasy, clay-like in the central part. Truffles grow in this grey land and the epicentre is in the damp Motovun forrest, through which runs the River Mirna. The truffle zone extends northeast to the towns Buzet and Lupoglava and southeast along the River Raša on Labinština and south to Pazinština. Apartments Istria
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The county Kršan in Istria has gotten its first hotel which recently accepted its first guests. The former motel Vidikovac has been renewed and turned into a three star hotel. It is the hotel Flanona, which was named after the old Roman name for Plomin. A wonderful view of the Plomin bay and Kvarner stretches from each balcony of its ten modern and air conditioned rooms. There is an open type restaurant in the hotel, where travellers and guests can enjoy all kinds of delicacies. The hotel has a big parking lot and for persons with special needs there is an equipped room with a seperate entrace by a new road. The guests of the hotel have a beach at arms length which they can reach through untouched nature, while a ten minute drive will get them to Ika, Moščenička Draga or Rabac. Apartments Rabac
Source: Croatia.hr

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The city of Porec can add one more hotel to its offering. After two and a half years of reconstruction, the old hotel Riviera, located in the very city centre of this tourist destination, has re-opened its doors, with new facilities and activities and a new name. This hotel, celebrating its 100th anniversary next year, has been renamed to Palazzio. It was renovated in line with the architecture of the time it was originally built in. The hotel has always attracted both vacationers and business-people. Now, it will attract even more since it features new business conference facilities for up to 120 people. It has an accommodation capacity of 70 people and will be open year-round. The city of Porec, whose Basilica of Euphrasius is on the UNESCO world heritage list, is a well-known Istrian tourist destination with a rich accommodation, hospitality, sports, recreational and entertainment offering. Some of the apartments in Porec, Spadici are listed on google maps. Recommendations for hotels Porec.
Source: Croatia.hr

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Funtana welcome to the world of dinosaurs!As of recently, Funtana, an Istrian tourist and fishing town, is welcoming its guests in a new fashion: by enabling visitors to spend time with enormous dinosaurs in its Dinosaur park Funtana. There, moving dinosaurs await visitors, of interest to both adults and children, for which the park has prepared special activities and the possibility to get close with the huge herbivores. The eight dinosaurs have come from Germany, Australia, Korea and Great Britain, and can make sounds, contributing to the special atmosphere of the park. Their number is about to increase very soon. Apart from "socializing" with the dinosaurs and riding them, visitors are also entertained by a magician and other entertainers. The first Croatian and second European dinosaur park is spread over an area of 40 thousand square metres. The investors are one Croatian and two German companies, and the investment is valued at EUR 1.2 million. Over the summer, interest for the Dinosaur Park Funtana was great. Seeing as it will be open year-round, visits by tourists and school children are expected over the following months.The fishing and tourist town Funtana is located on the western coast of Istria, between two eminent tourist destinations, Vrsar and Porec. Apartments Vrsar
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A rich conference autumn expects the Istrian tourist destination Rovinj. The town will host the weekend media Festival from September 18th to September 20th, only a few days after it celebrates its Town Day on the occasion of the holiday of the town's patron saint St Eufemija. The regional media festival is organized in Rovinj for the second time, gathering the most important media and communications infrastructure experts in the region. The event will be host to some of the most renowned world and regional experts in the field of communications. A couple of days later, from September 22nd to September 26th, Rovinj will host the Licensing Factory New Europe, a fair of the industry focusing on the use of characters from books, paintings, comics, animated and feature films for products such as schoolbags, T-shirts, mugs, ice-cream and others. This conference held in Rovinj is among many similar ones held in the USA, Great Britain, the UAE, Japan and Germany. Dance enthusiasts will be most pleased to hear that Rovinj will host the Argentinean Tango Festival from October 8th to October 11th, a three-day workshop for courses in tango on all levels.
Source: Croatia.hr

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On August 1st, the first Croatian luxury golf&spa resort, Kempinski Hotel Adriatic, will open its doors in Savudrija, making Kempinski the very first international luxury hotel chain to enter the Istrian market. The hotel features 186 rooms, 19 of which are luxury suites. 2 presidential suites are located on the top floor of the hotel. The hotel offering also includes three restaurants and four bars. The Greco-Roman Spa centre is spread over 3,000 square meters, with an inside and two heated outside pools, a jacuzzi and numerous beauty treatment areas, two of which are for couples. The wellness area also includes various aromatherapy saunas, a steam bath, a Roman caldarium, laconium, tepidarium and frigidarium, a kneipp track, a floating tank, a waterbed relaxation area and numerous others facilities. For active vacation enthusiasts, the hotel features a gym with contemporary Technogym equipment, a personal trainer and four tennis courts. Children can enjoy the Kempi Kids Club located in a special villa with its own play-area, children's pool and many other facilities specialized for children. In the midst of greenery, flowers, rosemary bushes and olive trees, there is also a private chapel, an ideal place for exchanging love vows. Kempinski Hotel Adriatic is the ideal hotel for holding business meetings and conferences, promotions and other events. Besides one large and two smaller conference halls within the hotel, there is an entire conference centre in a special building right next to the sea. The specialty of the Kempinski Golf Adriatic offering is its competitive 18-hole golf court, the first of its kind in Istria, 6,360 m long. The golf club features, apart from the main court, two practice courts, numerous other facilities and an amazing view of the Adriatic Sea.  Recommendations for hotels Istria.
Source: Croatia.hr

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Wine is an inevitable part of Istria’s identity, and the wine roads are an organic part of the tourist offer. They are the first selective tourist project and the first one that does not relate to the sea and beaches. Representing a dynamically developing process of a traditional, cultural, economic and tourist nature, they receive over 130 thousand visitors a year. There are presently six wine roads in the Istrian region: in the areas of Buje, Porec, Buzet, Pazin, Rovinj, Vodnjan and Labin, including 88 itineraries/stations. Renowned winemakers are involved in the wine road project, striving to present their wines in an appropriate manner. The visitors first see the vineyards, then take a tour of the cellars where they are told about grape processing and wine keeping, and finally taste the products. Many winemakers grow their own olives and make prosciutto, pickled mushrooms and other products, including them in their offer. Numerous visitors choose to buy wine because it is much cheaper in the cellars than restaurants or stores. Both winemakers and their guests agree that a wine itinerary can be just as exciting as visiting a museum, a basilica or an important sporting event. Wine roads were a predecessor of agrotourism in Istria’s interior. Today, the county and the county tourist board support wine roads, especially their promotion. Wine roads contribute to human engagement in the preservation and reconstruction of the original ambient and traditional legacies, thus enriching the tourist product. In addition, the people of Istria have realized they generate loyal guests who come back not just during the season but in preseason and postseason, providing each winemaker with the opportunity to promote their wine and other products.

Source: press.croatia.hr

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