About the sights of Croatia
Croatia has a lot of attractions. There are always more of them than a tourist or a traveler who comes here for a limited time can see.
Entire cities can be considered sights here. For example, Dubrovnik and Split are included in the UNESCO cultural heritage register. In these cities themselves, there are no places worth visiting. In Dubrovnik, which is the pearl of the Adriatic, this is the old city itself, the fortress wall, cathedrals, museums, a fountain, the whole island of Lokrum next to the city.
In Split, this is, first of all, the palace of Emperor Diocletian and the area surrounding it with ancient streets and squares, crowded with tourists from different countries in the evenings.
And cities such as Rovinj, Sibenik, Trogir. Their names may not be well known, but there are plenty of interesting historical places in them. In Sibenek, the Cathedral of St. Jacob. Trogir is also included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Register. This city, located on a small island in the Adriatic Sea, was founded three centuries before our era. The architectural monuments of the Romanesque era contrast here with the Renaissance and Baroque.
If we talk about the islands, then they are also sights worthy of a mandatory visit. The only problem is that there are many of them, they are located along the entire length of the Adriatic coast of the country, and excursions to them require, as a rule, at least a whole day. It turns out that those who have a rest in Dubrovnik or Cavtvt will not be able to go to Brijuni on this tour.
And those who rest in Istria or Opatija will be able to visit Lokrum or Mljet only on their next visit to Croatia.
Tourists usually visit castles with interest, and there are also a lot of them in Croatia. Trakoscan can be distinguished among them. It is the largest and most famous of the Croatian castles, built since the 13th century and is one of the best fortifications in Europe.
Some buildings of the Trsat castle in Rijeka date back to ancient Roman times. The Castle of St. Michael in Sibenik was built by the Venetians to protect against the Turks on the ruins of an even more ancient citadel. Also worth visiting are the castles of Novi Grad na Dobri in the Gorski Kotar region, the castles of Veliki Tabor and Lobor Dvorac in northern Croatia, and many others.
Among the interesting sights are the summer residences of the former Croatian (and sometimes Italian) nobility, built during the Renaissance. There are about eighty of them in Opatija, Istria and the Dubrovnik Riviera.
Speaking about Croatian attractions, one cannot help but recall the city of Pula in Istria and its ancient Roman amphitheater, built by Emperor Vespasian. The flow of tourists to this bewitching monument almost never dries up.
To sum up all that has been said, we can make an obvious conclusion: in whatever area of this country you are vacationing, there are always interesting and wonderfully beautiful places that you can visit in the vicinity.