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MLJET KORNATI KRKA BRIJUNI
Mljet
In southern Croatia, close to world famous city of Dubrovnik, one of the most beautiful islands in the world is located.
 Mljet is an
elongated island, with an average width 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 5.375 ha 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 National Park has been
proclaimed as an area of special interest for the following reasons:
• Its unique panoramic landscape of
well intended coastline, cliffs, reefs and numerous islands, as well as the rich topography of the
nearby hills, which rise steeply above the sea and hide numerous ancient stone
villages.
• The salt lakes are unique geological and
oceanographic phenomenon of worldwide importance. They originated approximately
10,000 years ago and, until the
Christian era, they were freshwater lakes.
• Beautiful, rich forests
once covered large areas of the Mediterranean
Coast, but they are rarely preserved
today as beautifully as they are on Mljet.
• The little isle of St.
Mary in the Great lake, with an
ancient Benedictine monastery and a church dating from 12th century.
• Polače site, a cultural and
historic complex consisting of the remains of a Roman Palace with fortifications and ancient Christian basilica
nesting in a sheltered bay.
• An exceptional cultural and historical heritage dating back to the eras of
the Illirian tribes, the Roman Empire and the Republic of Dubrovnik.
* Mljet's fauna is
particularly friendly because there are no poisonous snakes
   
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Kornati
 National park Kornati is
the most famous sea atraction in Croatia.
Many songs have been sung and many legends have been told about this natural
phenomenon. One of them tells that «when God created Earth in his hand he had
left cuple of earth clumps and he decided to drop them on the place where
Kornati islands stand today». Kornati are the aripelag that conists of 140 islands and cliffs. In the past that was the place where the pirates came
to hide from their chasers. Even today there are stories about hiden treasures at the bottom of the sea. For many yachtsmen that come in Croatia, Kornati are
the top destination to visit.
    
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Krka
 The Krka
National Park 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.
The Krka National Park is located entirely within the
territory of Šibenik-Knin County and encompasses an area of 109 square
kilometers along
the Krka River: two kilometers downriver from Knin to Skradin and the lower
part of the Čikola River.
From the flooded part of the mouth, it is 72.5 kilometers in length,
making the Krka the 22nd longest river in Croatia.
The
source of the Krka River is at the base of the Dinaric Mountains, 3.5 kilometers northeast of the base of Knin and 22
meters below Topoljski Slap, Veliki Buk and Krčić Slap, which are noisy cascades in the winter but run dry during the
summer.
The
length of the freshwater section of the river is 49 kilometers and that
of the brackish section is 23.5 kilometers.
Significant tributaries of the Krka
River include Krčić, Kosovčica,
Orašnica, Butišnica and Čikola
with Vrb.
With its seven travertine waterfalls and a total drop of 242 meters,
the Krka River is a natural and karstic phenomenon.
    
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Brijuni
 The legend says that the Maker intended to shape a part of the
Earth to the image of Heaven. That
is how Istria came into being, like
a garden covered with magnificent trees and vast meadows, washed by the deep
blue sea, appealing people to a happier life. But the jealous devil destroyed
his work by tearing the bag in which the angel was carrying the unused stones. Thousands of rocks scattered
around the Istrian land making it a land of contrasts, gentle and rough,
fertile and barren, sunny and cloudy. The desolated angels gathered the pieces
of Heaven remaining among the scattered rocks and protected them by the sea waves and created Brijuni.
  
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