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National Park Plitvice Lakes


    

  NP Plitvice

 


National Park Plitvice Lakes The natural attributes of the Plitvice Lakes National Park, uniqueness and sensibiliry of that phenomenon, deserve a full attention of our visitors. Recreational aspect of stay and the amazement with beauty of the area that conquers by  its natural diversity and harmony of shapes and colours in any of the seasons, is based  on many mutually conditioned natural characteristics.



Plitvice Lakes Croatian National Park

Plitvice Lakes Croatian National Park

Plitvice Lakes Croatian National Park


 
 

National Park Krka


    

  NP Krka

 


National Park Krka is a spacious, largely unchanged region of exceptional and multifaceted natural value, and includes one or more preserved or insignificantly altered ecosystems. It is intended primarily for scientific, cultural, educational, recreational, and tourism activities such as visiting and  sightseeing. It was proclaimed a national park in 1985 and is the seventh national park in Croatia.


Krka Croatian National Park

Krka Croatian National Park

Krka Croatian National Park


 
 

National Park Mljet


    

  NP Mljet

 


National Park Mljet is an elongated island, with an averagewidth of 3 km, 37 km long. It is  an Island of great diversity and contrast, and Mljet National Park covers his northwestern part with an area of 5.375ha of protected land and surrounding sea. This area was proclaimed as national park 11 November 1960 and represents the first institutionalized attempt to protect an original ecosystem in the Adriatic.


Mljet Croatian National Park

Mljet Croatian National Park

Mljet Croatian National Park


 
 

National Park Kornati archipelago


    

  NP Kornati arch.

 


National Park Kornati archipelago In the central part of croatian Adriatic Sea about 15 Nm to  the west from Sibenik town, 7 Nm to the southwest from Murter, or 15 Nm to the south from Zadar town, there is amazing group of islands named Kornati archipelago. Beauty and singularity  of the archipelago moved authorities in 1980 to proclaim a bigger part of that area national park. Since then certain modifications of its borders were made, so that nowadays Kornati National Park occupies the area of about 220 km2 (54.000 acres). There are 89 islands, islets and reefs within  the area of Kornati National Park (238 km of the coastline), what makes it the most indented group of islands in the Mediterranean.


Kornati Croatian National Park

Kornati Croatian National Park

Kornati Croatian National Park


 
 

National Park Brijuni Islands


    

  NP Brijuni Islands

 


The National Park Brijuni Islands. includes the following islands: Veliki Brijun, Mali Brijun, St. Mark, Gaz, Okrugljak, Supin, Supinia, Galija, Grunj, Vanga (Krasnica), Pusti (Madona),Vrsar, St. Jerome and Kozada. (Krasnica). Geologically and geo-morphologically  Brijuni are the continuation of western Istria, the so-called Red Istria. Since the depth of the  channel of Fažana is just 12m, Brijuni were until some 10,000 years ago an integral part of Istria.


Brijuni Croatian National Park

Brijuni Croatian National Park

Brijuni Croatian National Park


 
 

National Park Paklenica Mountin


    

  NP Paklenica Mountin

 


National Park Paklenica Mountin With its surface area of 96 km2, from the eastern coast of the  Adriatic Sea to the highest peaks of the Velebit Mountains, Vaganski Vrh (1757 m) and Sveto Brdo (1753 m), Paklenica abounds with numerous natural wonders and phenomena, which is why the entire area was proclaimed a national park in 1949. And rightfully so, as this region is simple and unusual in its connection between the sea and the mountains, rich in beech and black pine forests, its deep canyons cut vertically into the Velebit ridge, its karst formations and numerous caves and pits.


Paklenica Mountin Croatian National Park

Paklenica Mountin Croatian National Park

Paklenica Mountin Croatian National Park


 
 

National Park Risnjak


    

  NP Risnjak

 


National Park Risnjak is located in Gorski kotar, the most wooded part of western Croatia. It lies in the immediate vicinity of the Adriatic Sea, only 15 km north-east from Rijeka. The Park covers an area of 63,5 km2 including the central part of the Risnjak and Snježnik massif, as well as the upper flow of the river Kupa with its source area. The area of the Risnjak massif was proclaimed a national park in 1953, at the suggestion of an eminent Croatian natural scientist and researcher of Risnjak, prof. dr. Ivo Horvat. Early in 1997, the NP Risnjak was extended to the area of the Snježnik massif and the source area of the river Kupa, thus fulfilling the wish of prof. dr. Ivo Horvat to protect and enhance this area.


Risnjak Croatian National Park

Risnjak Croatian National Park

Risnjak Croatian National Park



 

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