Art and culture

The house of Croatian fairy tale writer Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

Ivana Brlic Mažuranic Ivana's House of Fairy Tales is a multimedia and interactive center for visitors who celebrate fairy tales and fairy-tale creativity. It is also one of the most...

Nikola Faller – master of sculpture says; art can not disappear – just change its shape…

Photo credit by Nikola Faller Nikola Faller sees art in everything. Nikola Faller- master of sculpture, believes that art can not disappear but just change its shape...like everything else in...

The first and largest medieval summer fair in Croatia- Rabska Fjera

The first and largest medieval summer fair in Croatia, Rabska fjera is based on tradition started 21st of July 1364, when the City Council of Rab decided to celebrate and...

SEA OF BOOKS AND DISTANT GALAXIES IN THE PARK OF ZRINJEVAC

Zrinjevac Park, Zagreb, Sea of Books For the fifth time in a row, Park Zrinjevac turns into a unique beach with a sea of books The Zagreb cultural summer...

The new James Bond will be filmed in Croatia

The new James Bond will be filmed in Croatia Among many movie characters that have been making history on Croatian soil (about which you can read more here), you can...

Jackie Chan movie was shot in Zagreb

Jackie Chan’s movie was shot in Zagreb? The colorful streets of Zagreb would rarely give you an impression of an action scene, but that’s precisely what Zagreb was during 1986...

International Lace Exhibition in Ozalj

Ozalj County Museum, 5th International Lace Exhibition Lace was very important in Croatia. Lace was a status symbol, it showed someone's richness, origin, skill, and heritage. Just because of that in...

Influential Croatian Women -Slava Raškaj- the deaf messenger of beauty

Slava Raškaj, Mala gluhonjema Vera Papić iz sela Slava Raškaj What some of the women through history experienced is just a reminder that some of them paved...

Influential Croatian Women- Paula Preradović- the Croatian author of the Austrian anthem

This is an interesting biography of one woman, Paula Preradović, who lived quite low-key but justified her family heritage as the offspring of one of the biggest Croatian poets. Her…

Influential Croatian Women- Dora Maar- Picasso’s tragic muse

Everyone knows of Pablo Picasso. Many people know of his turbulent love life. Only a few know about the Croatian woman who shaped a huge part of his work and…