Jarun lake

Even though Zagreb doesn’t have the access to the sea, Jarun Lake is known as the "Zagreb sea" and is a favorite gathering place for all generations - from children and young people, to adults and the elderly. It is a place of great importance to the sports – in the near area there are numerous sport clubs which use this area for trainings. Whether you want to have a swim, jogg, barbecue or just relax, Jarun is the place to meet all your needs. It is especially visited in the warmer part of the year, when it becomes vivid hub crowded with people from the morning sipping coffee, until the  late-evening recreation.

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The city of Krapina

Krapina-Zagorje County is a located in northern Croatia, bordering Slovenia. It encompasses most of the historic region called Zagorje, with “Krapina Neanderthal Museum” being world-known destination.

The area contains the excavation site of a 100,000-year-old Neanderthal man in caves near the central town of Krapina. Homo sapiens Neanderthalensis, the Krapina prehistoric man was discovered all the way back in 1899. Nine hundred human fossil bones were found in the cave's sandstone deposits, which were 8 meters high. This is the largest and most abundant collection of Neanderthal people collected at a single locality. The bones belong to the fossil remains of several dozen individuals, both male and female, from 2 to 40 years of age.

The age of this rich paleontological locality corresponds to the period of about 125 thousand years ago. The site is protected as the first paleontological natural monument in the Republic of Croatia, and is listed as one of the richest Palaeolithic habitats of Neanderthals in Croatia and Europe.

 

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Trakošćan castle

Trakošćan Castle was built in the 13th century and was originally a small medieval castle - Burg. It was build as a small observation fortress for monitoring the road and the enemies.  In 1569., it was passed into the hands of croatian noble family Drašković. Family leaves the castle in year of 1944., while in 1954. Trakošćan was turned into museum. The museum has a valuable museum material from the renaissance to historicism, made from valuable collections of paintings, furniture, weapons and other items that represent aristocratic life through history of Trakošćan and Drašković family. Today the castle is one of the few facilities in Croatia with preserved its own constitution, historically closely related to the architectural framework and the life of its owners. In front of the castle, there is an artificial lake which in its inception functioned as a fish pond, but retained its architectural importance to the present day.

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City of Varaždin

Varaždin is the city of baroque, young people, music, flowers and bicycles, as well as one of the oldest and the most beautiful Central European cities, also reffered to as  „Little Vienna“ . Nowdays it represents the best preserved and richest urban complex in continental Croatia, with it’s rich natural legacy interwoven in parks,streets and architecture. The city, whose rich history goes back to the 12th century, was home to the region's wealthiest nobles, landowners, artisans and artists, especially in the late 1700s, when the city flourished and became the capital of Croatia. Nowadays Varaždin is the administrative, political, economic and cultural center of north Croatia with a population of around 50 thousand people. It is known for the City Castle, the 500-year old City Hall and its cemetery. The city features its old city guard, named Purgari, in various city ceremonies as well as the weekly ceremony of the 'change of the guards' in front of the city hall. In 2005, the Historic Nucleus with the Old Town was submitted to the UNESCO's World Heritage List. Furthermore, in 2010., Forbes declared Varaždin as the best place to live and work in Croatia.