Croatia, the land of more than 1000 islands, but only a handful are inhabited - 47 apparently, with another 20 recently abandoned. In a new series on TCN on January 4, 2017, we take a closer look at the inhabited islands of Croatia, starting with Zirje, which guards the entrance to the Sibenik...

Stari Grad on Hvar has been nominated for Best European Destination 2017. Continuing the popular 25 Things to Know about Croatia series on November 27, 2016, a closer look at one the town celebrating its 2400th birthday.    1 - The Meaning of Stari Grad For the linguistically challenged, Stari...

Continuing our popular series 25 Things to Know about Croatia on September 18, 2016, one of the most intriguing islands of them all - Vis. 1. Oldest town in Croatia (Photo credit http://vis-central.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/iskopine-anticke-isse-7.jpg) Stari Grad on the island of Hvar may well...

  We continue our best beaches series with Lošinj, an island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located in the Kvarner Gulf in Croatia - south of the city of Rijeka and part of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. Lošinj is the 11th largest Adriatic island by area, measuring 33 kilometers (21 miles)...

We continue our best beaches series with Pelješac, our famous wine region and a peninsula in the south of Croatia in the Dubrovnik-Neretva county. The Pelješac peninsula is the second largest in Croatia, ranging around 70 kilometers long. The peninsula connects with the Croatian mainland at Ston,...

  We continue our best beaches series with the island of Pašman, located just south of Zadar and surrounded by the islands Ugljan, Iž, Dugi otok and Kornati. Pašman is an island located in the Zadar archipelago, separated from the mainland by the Pašman canal which contains ten smaller...

We continue our top beaches series with a relatively unknown island that boasts beaches considered among the most beautiful in the Adriatic: Dugi Otok. Translating in English to “long island”, Dugi Otok is the seventh largest island in the Adriatic sea, located off the Dalmatian coast west of...