Croatian BEACHES

[croat34]

CROATIAN BEACHES

I live in Australia and have travelled most of Europe. I would have to say that the Croatian Beaches and Coastline or Rivirera is the best in the World. Everywhere you look this small country is fabulous and winning tourism awards of late. It has become a playground for the Rich and famous. Bill Gates, Roman Abramovich, Bernie Ecclestone regularly holiday here and has now become the filming location of one of the worlds most popular TV series in Game of Thrones and ABC American Series 'Missing'.

What makes this Riviera special in my opinion is that it has approx 1200 Islands, however unlike some other parts of Europe they are relatively close to each other and the mainland making the density of islands quite amazing. Whether on an Island or on the mainland you have the feeling that you are swimming in a large bay or a large lake rather than the large open Ocean. It is truly an amazing place.

The Damatian Coast is truly picturesque and is where the dalmatian dog is said to come from. Like the dog this part of Croatia is dotted with islands thus I take it this is how its name was derived.

George Bernard Shaw was enchanted by this city, about which he said "those who seek paradise on Earth should come to Dubrovnik and see Dubrovnik". Croatia has often been described by Journalist as 'Heaven on Earth'.


DUBROVNIK


photo by photos by smug
























Sveti Jakov Beach- Dubrovnik





Another Beach in Dubrovnik area







LUBENICA BEACH- Island Cres CROATIA

A Beautiful Beach with a mountain leading up to a village on the mountains edge.



















BEACHES ON THE ISLAND OF VIS- CROATIA



Stiniva beach





























Other beaches in island of VIS- Around towns of Vis town and Komiza


























Milna beach Vis

[croat34]

Island Murter & Neighbouring Kornati Islands

Below you will see pics of the Island of Murter and its many beaches- it is the closest inhabited island to mainland Croatia connected by a 50-70m bridge. This makes the place spectacular as nearly everywhere you swim you feel like your in a large pool or lake as there are islands everywhere. Like the Dalmatian dog where it got its name this part of the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia is spotted with islands. Murter is also a great place to start your trip to the Kornati islands. They are truly spectacular and should be one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the world.


With 35 km in length and 140 islands, some large, some small, in a sea area of about 320 km², the Kornati are the densest archipelago in the Mediteranean From northwest to southeast (from the island of Balabra to Samograd), and from northeast to southwest (from Gangarol to Mana) they strech for 13 km. The name of the archipelago is the plural form of the name of the largest island, Kornat.

Murter has four towns in Betina, Murter town, Jezera and Tisno and a minimum of 15 beaches I can think of of the top of my head.


Slanica Beach in Murter-part sandy beach














Cigraga beach below in Murter





Luke Beach- Murter





Podvrske Beach- Murter





The amazing Kosirina beach- near Betina













View from one of the beaches just outside town of Betina





Amazing aerial view of Murter Island. As you can see beaches and island everywhere. At the forefront you can see the village of Murter and the town of Betina just behind it.



Kornati to follow below





Continued from above:

Kornati Islands







Heart Shaped

[croat34]

BOL TOWN-ZLATNI RAT BEACH(Golden Horn Beach) on Island of Brac- CROATIA

One of the most beatiful beaches in the World. You will be surprised what you find under the trees. Restaurants, bars and Hotels which you cant see on pics as trees are quite high in real life. Just 1km down the road is the very picturesque town of Bol set under the mountain overlooking the beach. A beauty!!






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Krk Beaches- Island Krk- CROATIA















PUNTA RATA BEACH- Brela on the Makarska Riviera- CROATIA

The symbol of Brela is "Kamen Brela" (Brela Stone), a small rock island just off the main beach in Brela, the Punta Rata beach. In 2003 American magazine Forbes put the Punta Rata beach on the list of 10 world's most beautiful beaches, where it's ranked 6th in the world and 1st in Europe





























These are some Croatian Cities that are within an hour or in some cases one minute from some of the beaches postes thus showing you some of the diversity that C5roatia has to offer. History, Culture, Ancient Ruins & Architecture, Beautiful nature and beaches all combined into one great package.



Rovinj



Dubrovnik


Split




City of Trogir & City of Korcula on Korcula Island


Pula


Zadar


Hvar






Sibenik

[Linguine]

fantastic photos....

[ChErGi]

Gimme a break!!! In Rovinj u cant find a proper normal beach no way. Only rocks and where is kind of normal beach are stupid stones when u enter the sea,but stones to hurt only. Sucks to the core. Only if u swimm then only rocks are the best.

[aarhusforever]

...looks like paradise

[Marbur66]

Croatian beaches are beautiful, it's too bad they're not sandy.

[Zabonz]

There are hundreds of sandy beaches in Croatia! Some, that the Croat34 mentioned, are sandy....

Here is one more, on Dugi(Long) Island





IMHO the best beaches are sandy inside the sea and small oval stones on the shore so you do not get sand all over yourself...

[MountMan]

photos by me

[TI8]

It is characteristic to Croatian Coast that there isn't many sandy beaches. But there are many of my favourite type of beaches - pebble beaches.

That is the charm of the beautiful Croatian coast. Lots of fragrant pine trees, very clear water and pebble beaches.

[TI8]

Originally Posted by ChErGi

Gimme a break!!! In Rovinj u cant find a proper normal beach no way. Only rocks and where is kind of normal beach are stupid stones when u enter the sea,but stones to hurt only. Sucks to the core. Only if u swimm then only rocks are the best.

Rovinj is more for see beautiful town, architecture and many things but in Rovinj there aren't so many beaches, except rocky beaches. You should go somewhere else outside Rovinj to see the most beautiful beaches, especially on islands.

[ChErGi]

Originally Posted by TI8

Rovinj is more for see beautiful town, architecture and many things but in Rovinj there aren't so many beaches, except rocky beaches. You should go somewhere else outside Rovinj to see the most beautiful beaches, especially on islands.

Spent there 3months so I know
that is why Rovinj sucks according to this question. What a stupidness to visit some city on the coast, during summer, but no proper beach. omg.

[TI8]

Great. Then don't come anymore, if you don't like it and problem solved. Rovinj is not only place on 6000km long Croatian coast.

[TI8]

Sada vidim da si naša. Pa što se žališ na engleskom?

[ChErGi]

Originally Posted by TI8

Sada vidim da si naša. Pa što se žališ na engleskom?

Then dont come anymore lol

I necu :P Odmor ce bit negdje drugdje








Mislim u Skybaru sam bila pisala na nasem pa mi receno da moram na engleskom

[TI8]

Originally Posted by ChErGi

Then dont come anymore lol

I necu :P Odmor ce bit negdje drugdje








Mislim u Skybaru sam bila pisala na nasem pa mi receno da moram na engleskom

Ti ideš tražiti plaže u Istru pored jedne Dalmacije, mislim stvarno (da se ne uvride Istrijani).

[TI8]

It is better to rename thread into Croatian coast.

[ChErGi]

Originally Posted by TI8

Ti ideš tražiti plaže u Istru pored jedne Dalmacije, mislim stvarno (da se ne uvride Istrijani).

Joj de kad sam vidjela slike plaze iz Tucepa od rodice kad je ljetovala tamo

Nikad me Istra nece vidjeti na godisnjem


Bila sam radila tijekom ljeta ondje.

[MountMan]

photos by me

[croat34]

Originally Posted by ChErGi

Gimme a break!!! In Rovinj u cant find a proper normal beach no way. Only rocks and where is kind of normal beach are stupid stones when u enter the sea,but stones to hurt only. Sucks to the core. Only if u swimm then only rocks are the best.

Im from Australia and sandy beaches are all the same. Long and no character normally. If you want sandy beaches come to Australia. I can assure you they dont even get close to Croatia for atmosphere and beauty- maybe the odd one in Queensland.

I cant believe you are Croatian as you can see in your other post and you come on here being Sarcastic when you should be promoting your country.

Croatia has many sandy beaches its just that you have to go to the right beaches. I myself like pebbles , much cleaner and the weather does not need to be perfect to enjoy the beach. With sand a little wind and it is in your hair, your mouth and then you are eating sand in your teeth for rest of day.

Many tourist go to places like Rovinj, Dubrovnik, Split and expect sand beaches everywhere. Well this is not the case but most of these cities/places have sandy beaches within half hour radius and there are so many beaches in Croatia.