Via Balkans

The Slovenian coast

admin — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:42:57 +0000

Ankaran – Ancarano Coming across the border from Trieste at Škofija or Lazaret, we arrive in the first Slovenian tourist resort which begins with the first letter of the alphabet A – Ankaran It is situated on a long sandy beach’ on the north side of the Bay of Koper, and is well protected from wind. Owing to its agreeable climate, Ankaran is both a pleasant...

Milos island

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:15:46 +0000

The capital, Plaka, or Milos, at the entrance to the bay of Milos, spreads around the slopes of a hill which is crowned by the ruins of a 13th c. Venetian castle. There is an Archaeological Museum in the town housing finds from the excavations on the island, dating from various periods, as well as a plaster cast of the famous statue of the Aphrodite of Milos (Venus de Milo),...

Skopje, the capital of Macedonia

admin — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:09:02 +0000

The name of the capital of Macedonia evokes memory of the terrible earthquake which in 20 seconds an the 26th of July, 1963, transformed it into. a heap of ruins (1100 dead, 4000 injured, 80 % of housing damaged). Contemporaries think only of 1963, but historians remind us of 518, when an earthquake destroyed Roman Skopje (Skupi); they point to an earthquake – the one in...

Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia

admin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:07:28 +0000

Even, today, in the days of astronauts, Ljubljana is still closely associated with the legend of the Argonauts and the golden fleece. Once it was seriously believed that Ljubljana had been founded by Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, who on his trip across the Black Sea and along the rivers Danube and Sava had to sail up the river Ljubljanica to take his miraculous ship...

The peninsula St. Stephen

admin — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:55:48 +0000

St. Stephen is one of a few perfect destinations on the planet. It is completely original ambient, picturesque and town from fairy-tale build on a small island near the coast … Simply, it is not possible to describe that atmosphere and that pleasantness in St. Stephen. You must experience it! Today, the fashionable destination St. Stephen turned into the city-hotel...

Zobnatica, castle and horse farm

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:56:28 +0000

Zobnatica is located in the central part of Bačka, about 5 km from Bačka Topola. Tourist complex Zobnatica is former farm of the family Terlej where the famous Vojvodina’s landowner Djula Terlej built castle. The castle Zobnatica was built in 1882 in the late classicism style as a representative building for his family. On the side of the castle is a tower with an...

The famous parties on the Zrće beach

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:36:16 +0000

The famous Zrće Beach is located about three kilometers south of the town Novalja on the island Pag. It was an ordinary not so big beach that is turned into a place with the most wild energy in the whole Adriatic coast. Many people compare it with the Spanish Ibiza, although, by all odds, it is even better and wilder. It is more similar to the Greek island Mykonos. On the...

The Galičica National Park

admin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:38:42 +0000

Due to its exceptional natural beauty and characteristic flora and fauna, forests and forest areas, the area of about 22,750 hectares, belonging to the Galičica Mountain, was in 1958 declared a National Park. The Galičica National Park is located in the farthest, the southwestern part of Macedonia, between two lakes – Ohrid and Prespa, and it is not known only for its...

Sokobanja, treatments and enjoy – all in once

admin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:00:40 +0000

Sokobanja is one of the most popular destinations in Serbia, when we are talking about spa tourism. It is located in southeast Serbia, in a valley between mountains Ozren and Rtanj, through which flows a river Sokobanjska Moravica. It is very simple to come in Sokobanja, use Belgrade-Nis highway and it is 220 km from Belgrade and from Nis only 60 km. With the highway you can...

The Veles Lake

admin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 12:00:53 +0000

The Veles Lake, also known as Mladost (Youth) Lake in Macedonia, is an artificial reservoir, located north of the little town Veles, on the land belonging to the Republic of Macedonia. From the Veles there is a local road passing by the dam that leads to the coast. Around the lake there are tourist facilities, recently opened to the tourist visit, modern motels that provide...

Motovun – a town with thousand stairs

admin — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:05:47 +0000

Motovun is a town in the north of Istria, for which, except local people, no one knew, until recently in the summer of 1999. when famous film director Rajko Grlić has decided to make a film festival in this small, attractive town. The idea was that the concept of the festival must be the opposite from that which has better known, the Pula Film Festival, without red carpet,...

The Mirna River

admin — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:00:16 +0000

The Mirna is the most beautiful and longest river on the Istia Peninsula. Italians call it Fiume Quieto. The Mirna spring is 32 km upstream from the mouth into the Adriatic Sea, in the valley and Kotli near Hum – the smallest city in the world! Kotli was named after the characteristic springs and it looks like boilers with boiling water. It is interesting the fact that...

The Pelister National Park

admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:00:40 +0000

The Pelister National Park is placed an area of 12,500 hectares in the southwestern part of Macedonia. It was declared in 1948 the first protected natural area in Macedonia. It is characterized by the many peaks higher than 2,000m, separated between themselves by deep valleys. The highest peak is Pelister (2,601 m). At the foot of the Pelister flows so called Kamena (Stone)...

The Una river, ’’unique and the only one’’

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:28:38 +0000

Once someone said: “It is blessed the land whose borders are rivers Drina and Una! Una is a river that most of their flow is between Bosnia and Croatia. The Una river become its name by the Latin word una – one, the only one. Una’s spring is in Lika in the valley between the mountains Plješevice and Stražbenice and it is about 450 m above see level, and empties...

The National Park Fruška Gora

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:00:40 +0000

The Fruška gora proudly rises up above Vojvodina’s plain.It is located near Novi Sad and as the opposite of this stuffy city on the Danube, in the middle of Vojvodina is the Fruška gora -this natural jewel that has the epithet “the lungs of Vojvodina“ and certainly represents ideal place for rehabilitation. The Fruška Gora was declared in 1960 a National Park....

The Tara Canyon

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:18:57 +0000

The Tara River, known as “European tear” magnifies the beauty of Montenegro. A beautiful, clear, bright green Drina certainly would not be like that if it didn’t come from the rivers Tara and Piva… The Tara River with its pure water has completely all characteristic of mountain river… but if we freely give to Tara all known epithets, we will not...

The Mount Athos

admin — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:00:41 +0000

The Mount Athos (gr. Aγιoν Oρoς), a peninsula Athos situated on a large Chalkidiki peninsula, is an autonomous state under Greek sovereignty… There are so many things by which is the Mount Athos recognizable, strange and different as well. Once the Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović wrote: “The kingdom without a crown, State without an army, Wisdom without...

Lipica, stud farm of Lipizzaner

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:40:03 +0000

Lipica is a village in Slovenia, near the coast and the Italian border, where have been bred, the famous world wide horses Lipizzaner. Lipica is stud farm founded in 1580, bringing the best horses from Spain and Palestine but also some famous animals like the famous stallion Cordoba or horses from royal stables Frederiksborg brought from Germany and Denmark. In Lipica there...