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Should you follow the fairytale roads through the karst wonderland of the River Krka valley to the sea, you are on the right road to open the door
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to the most sheltered natural port in the central Adriatic, and to meet the
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proud city of King Krešimir - Šibenik. Along this green course abound-
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cultural monument), in this magical area where more than 220 bird spe-
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cies found their habitat and which has the only falconry center in Croatia,
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Krka the Beauty spills its crystal clear waters over 7 waterfalls. And it is
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ing in the remains of ancient towns and a Roman aqueduct (a protected
between the two most beautiful, Roški slap and Skradinski buk, that hu-
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man hands crowned the nature with two edifices known far and wide: the monastery of the the Holy Archangel and the Visovac monastery. Like the
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mythical Avalon, unique for its fairyale location on a tiny isle in the middle of an emerald lake formed by the River Krka, the Franciscan monastery of
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Visovac houses a valulable library, works of art and other valuables – one
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And, as a finale, you can cast off towards the open sea and get to now
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that fantastic archipelago which, Georg Bernard Shaw wrote, came to be
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of them being the sabre of Vuk Mandušić who died fighting the Turks.
beacuse “the gods, having finished creating the world, wanted to crown
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their work, so on the last day, out of tears, stars and breath of the sea
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numerous archipelago in the Mediterranean, it suffices to say that there
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are as many of „God’s stellar tears turned to stone in the sea” as there
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they created Kornati.” About this fabulous creation of nature, the most
are days in a year, and of the 365 glorious sights 89 of them comprise a separate entity: the Kornati National Park.