Crikvenica is situated in the Kvarner bay of the Adriatic sea, 33 kilometers away from the river, a major transport hub and the center of Primorje-Gorski Kotar, a part of which is the town of Crikvenica.
The whole town of Crikvenica is in fact a riviera with a row of almost connected small tourist resorts: Selce, Crikvenica, Dramalj and Jadranovo. The city covers about 28 square kilometers in the coastal zone, about 15 km long and about 2 km wide, between the sea and the elongated littoral reef of an average elevation of 300 m. Close to the airport on the island of Krk, the passenger and cargo sea port of Rijeka and the good road and railway connection with Central Europe have contributed to the early development of the tourism, which in the present Riviera of Crikvenica a tradition of more than one hundred years.
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Bronze Age swords, spears, axes and jewelry were found in several places in the area of the town of Crikvenica. At the mouth of the river Dubračine, that even in ancient times was navigable up to present a football field, but at the beginning of a new era there was a settlement Ad Turres. It was one of the key sites along the Roman road from Italy to Dalmatia.
In the eighth Century of Croatian settlement in Vinodolu organize their parish, which consisted of independent municipalities. The new home and bring your spiritual and material culture, on whose witnesses extraordinarily examples of jewelry and personal items were found in the early Croatian cemetery Stranger-Gorica near Crikvenica. They were the farmers and fishermen, and the domicile of the Roman population took the art of vine cultivation. And the Latin name for the fertile valley, Vallis vinearia translated in Croatian Vinodol.
Termination of the ravages of war enabled the resettlement of the coastal area. On the left side of the mouth of the river Dubračine built a small church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. With her, Prince Nicholas IV Frankopan raises 1412th The big building and it gives the church right Pauline. This marked the beginning of the monastic buildings stvranja Crikvenica, and Prince Nicholas Frankopana can be regarded as its founder, the Blessed Virgin Mary is considered its protector.
Century Austrian and Hungarian rule left a still visible "Mittel" track, which is particularly salient feature in the hotel's architecture. In this spirit, built the first hotel Crikvenica's Archduchess Clotilde (now pharmacy Adriatic), a particularly pronounced in the hotel "Therapy", Crikvenica first major hotel built in the 1895th year, which is the first time they called the Hotel of Archduke Joseph. From season to season, Crikvenica has been visited by royalty, movie stars, but also many ordinary tourists.
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Budget accommodation Crikvenica and sheltered from strong winds from the north through the mountain of Kapela and from the south due to the island of Krk, the climate is mild and relaxing. The characteristic climate of this region are dry, sunny and pleasantly warm summers and mild winters with a healthy local system of winds.
The amplitude, the average annual maximum and minimum temperatures is small fluctuations treasures. The annual average temperature is 14.2 ° C and average summer temperature is 23.6 ° C. Snow, fog and temperatures below 5 ° C are very rare. The sea temperature in summer reaches a maximum of 27 ° C. The sea air is characterized by clean and healthy oligominerals spread, and no noxious pollen allergens or waste gases. Acceptance of modern values balneotherapy, thalassotherapy, climate and water in top medical centers in Europe has prompted the construction of medical facilities and institutions in Crikvenica.
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Crikvenica is one of the oldest resorts on the Mediterranean and the famous health resort with a mild climate and luxuriant vegetation. Summer is the period of the place most intensely alive. Beautiful sand and pebble beaches provide the pleasure of bathing in the blue sea and the shady protection of the Mediterranean vegetation during the long hours of sunshine.
The offer is varied: walking along the sea and mountain surroundings, engaging in various sports, outdoor sports, fishing festivals and carnival follies, dancing and entertainment on the hotel terraces and nightclubs, classical music concerts and art exhibitions, enjoy the gastronomic specialties, boat excursions and buses to the nearby and distant surroundings, hunting and fishing. To see the oldest hotel Therapy, built in 1895th, but today even the former Pauline monastery converted into a hotel, and the church that the town got its name. Crikvenica is beautiful in winter, particularly because of the gorgeous carnival festivities in January and February, and close by lies a series of small villages including Grižane, where the late fifteenth century, was born the famous painter George Julius Klovic, Michelangelo Renaissance miniatures.
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Carnival in the end crikveničkome always been one of the most popular forms of entertainment, which hides the symbolism of calling the spring and forcing spirits of winter, the game change roles and identities, solving the burden of the past and create new, better opportunities. The streets of old Crikvenica were filled with imaginative children's and adult disguises and original ways of entertainment, and certainly the most famous racing on donkeys, which many still remember with a smile.
Contemporary Crikvenica seeks to preserve the valuable cultural heritage, treasures inherited the tradition of Carnival, framing it in modern attire and adapts faster pace of life, creating new traditions, while also follows, respects and proudly recalls the old.
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