YUGOSLAVIA - JUNE 1980 - V

DUBROVNIK - THE "PEARL OF THE ADRIATIC"

CROATIA

From an important Mediterranean sea power (13th century onwards) to a World Heritage Site! Being a prominent tourist resort, you should probably avoid the Italian Summer Cruise Season, in case you wish to visit the worth seeing old Ragusa town...


"Come in from land through the Pile Gate. Dating from 1537, this gate once housed the drawbridge that was raised every evening. The gate was then closed and the key handed to the Prince"


"Saint Saviour Church and Onofrio fountain"



"Placa (Stradun) - The main street in the old town; view towards the clock tower and towards Saint Saviour Church"



"The Sponza palace with its arcades"


"Got to the port"



"The port, source of medieval power, source of modern euros from the tender boats"


"Time to rest"


"The Magistrale Adriatica cuts the hill"



"Old and narrow sreets in the old town"


"You'll need some food after all these tours - Restaurant Jadran"



"Goodbye Yugoslavia"

YUGOSLAVIA - JUNE 1980 - IV

ON THE ROAD FROM PLITVICE TO DUBROVNIK

CROATIA


"MASLENICA BRIDGE - This one, called the old bridge, blew up (according to the legend told by engineer officers, bad weather and thunder activated the electric lighters) in 1991..."


"ZADAR - Zadar (Zara) became a Roman municipium in 59 BC, and in 48 BC a colony of Roman citizens. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Zadar became the capital of the Byzantine province of Dalmatia. This door - Kopnena Vrata - was built in 1543. It seems they recreated the lions' head, but the stop sign seems to remain the same..."


"ZADAR - Bell tower of the Cathedral of Sv. Stosija (Saint Anastasia), Zadar. It was started to build in 1452 but it was finished in 1892"


"ZADAR - Church of St. Mary"


"ZADAR - St. Donat, the most outstanding monument of Zadar, was built at the begining of the 9th century, and has a circular ground-plan"


"SIBENIK - They say it is the oldest native Croatian town at the eastern shore of the Adratic Sea"


"TROGIR - (Tragurion) was settled by the Greeks in IV-III century BC. In the First century AC, Trogir became the Roman municipality of "Tragurium Civium Romanorum"


"TROGIR - A museum town - with 2300 years of tradition - in the Adriatic coast"


"TROGIR - Included in UNESCO's World Cultural Heritage list in 1997, it might become a popular tourist destination"


"SPLIT - The City marks 1700 years since the beginning of the construction of Diocletian's Palace. It is also included in the World Heritage list since 1979"


"SPLIT - The romanesque tower-clock"


"SPLIT - The port"


"SPLIT - Cult of personality?"


"SPLIT - Strolling near the Port"


"PLOCE - Ploce is located on the Adriatic coast, just north of the Neretva river delta"

YUGOSLAVIA - JUNE 1980 - III

FROM POSTOJNA TO PLITVICE (CROATIA)

CROATIA

TRAVELLING IN THE "MAGISTRALE ADRIATICA"


"KRALJEVICA - Located at the south edge of Bakar Bay, near the point where the island of KRK is closest to the coast, 26Km south of RiJeka on the road towards Zadar"


"KRALJEVICA - Named Portorium on the 15th century, it lies on a slight inclined slope, and seems to have a favourable climate, which made it a tourist destination since the 19th century"


"MAGISTRALE ADRIATICA"


"SENJ and KRK - View towards the sea. SENJ, the old Senia, is the oldest town on the Croatian coast, between the Velebit and Kapela mountains. The island KRK, what a name, is in the Bay of Kvarner, and is the biggest island in the Adriatic"


"Near SENJ - View towards the mountains"

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PLITVICE LAKES - UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE

The Plitvice Lakes were inscribed in the UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE LIST IN 1979, just a few months before these pictures were taken.


"PLITVICE LAKES - The first Croatian National Park, definitely a Must!"


"From all perspectives, Beautiful!"


"Posing. One of my favourite photos ever"


"Matching greens"


"Nature creates waterfalls"


"Can't stop loving..."


"Home lakes to the brown trout, a gourmet's delicacy"


"In Perfect harmony"


"Ice-white waterfalls. There are no words to describe the colours of these lakes"

YUGOSLAVIA - JUNE 1980 - I

REQUIEM FOR... A COUNTRY (?)

Keeping together six Republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia - with the autonomous regions of Vojvodina and Kosovo -, and Slovenia), with three official languages (Serbo-croat, Slovenian and Macedonian), three main religions (Orthodoxs, Catholics, and Muslims), two alpabeths (Roman and Cyrillic), and many ethnic groups (Serbs, Croats, Muslims, Slovenes, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Albanians, Hungarians, and others) was not an easy task. Created after World War I as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, changed its name to Yugoslavia - Land of the southern Slavs - in 1929, and survived until World War II. Recreated in 1945, it finally lasted until 1991!

FROM DUBROVNIK (CROATIA) TO MOSTAR (BOSNIA)

CROATIA


"DUBROVNIK - Aerial view"


"DUBROVNIK - Bay of Gruz"


"MAGISTRALE ADRIATICA - Peljesac"

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BOSNIA and HERZRGOVINA


"POCITELJ - A picturesque little town perched on a hillside above the Neretva River"


"POCITELJ - The ancient fortress"



"MOSTAR - The Old Bridge, built in 1565 by the architecht Mimar Hajrudin, by order from Emperor Suleiman, the Magnificent, was destroyed on November 9th, 1993. Rebuilt, it was recently listed as World Heritage Site, not without some controversy on the quality of the reconstruction"


"MOSTAR - Riverside view"


"MOSTAR - One of the Mosques"


"MOSTAR - View from the new bridge"