CROATIAN INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE (UNESCO)
- Type: C
- Date: 1.7.2021.
- Number: 1355
- CROATIAN INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE (UNESCO) - MEĐIMURSKA POPEVKA
- Međimurje is an area in northwestern Croatia bordered by the rivers Mura and Drava, where a specific way of singing known as popevka has been formed for centuries. The oldest songs are based on melodies from the 16th century. Over time, this type of singing began to be performed by men as well, and then instrumental accompaniment was introduced.
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- Number: 1354
- CROATIAN INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE (UNESCO) - PROCESSION ZA KRIŽEN (FOLLOWING THE CROSS) ON THE ISLAND OF HVAR
- Za križen (following the cross) procession is a unique phenomenon of religious and folk piety in which the family, traditional, spiritual and cultural heritage of Jelsa, Pitve, Vrisnik, Svirče, Vrbanj and Vrboska on the island of Hvar is woven. The procession is led by a cross-bearer, preceded and followed by escorts dressed in fraternal attire, and members of the closest family and lamentation singers wear black clothes as a sign of mourning and sorrow for the dead Christ.
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- Number: 1353
- CROATIAN INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE (UNESCO) - ART OF DRYWALL CONSTRUCTION
- Dry stone walls appear in various forms along the entire area of the Adriatic-Dinaric karst. In the past they had a distinctly functional purpose, and today they increasingly serve as decorations in the landscape. A special type of drywall construction are sheep pens called mrgari for sorting and milking sheep in the southernmost part of the island of Krk, on pastures in Baška, Jurandvor and Batomalj, and on the neighbouring island of Prvić.
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- Number: 1352
- CROATIAN INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE (UNESCO) - ANNUAL SPRING PROCESSION OF QUEENS OR LJELJE FROM GORJANI
- On Pentecost, lesser-known customary and ritual practices were held in Slavonia, Baranja and Srijem, known as queens and kings. The custom would have been almost forgotten if it had not been well researched, described and documented in the 1950s by the famous Slavonian ethnologist, Zdenka Lechner, who restored and presented it together with a longtime and meritorious Gorjani teacher, Lucija Karalić.
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CROATIAN TOURISM – NIN
- Type: C
- Date: 10.6.2021.
- Number: 1351
- CROATIAN TOURISM – NIN, Church of the Holy Cross
- Church of the Holy Cross is one of the most valuable monuments of Croatian early medieval architecture. The church is about 8.50 m long and is of equal width and height. In the Middle Ages the church served as a calendar and sundial. Inspired by this fact, the Festival of the Sun and Light has been taking place in it since 2009.
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- Number: 1350
- CROATIAN TOURISM – NIN, view of the town and the sea
- This unique Croatian lagoon owns an islet hosting the old town on an area of 15 hectares with a diameter of 500 meters, which is connected to the mainland by two stone bridges. The town has been continuously inhabited for 3,000 years. It was founded by the Liburnians in the 9th century BC and according to its rich legacy, Nin is one of the most important Liburnian sites.
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CROATIAN MARIAN SHRINES
- Type: C
- Date: 7.6.2021.
- Number: 1349
- CROATIAN MARIAN SHRINES, Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is associated with the arrival of the first monk of the Order of St. Paul the First Hermit, known as the Pauline Fathers (hermit-eremitae-Remete), Abbot Isquirinus, in Croatia. According to tradition, he founded the first monastery in 1272. In 1319, thanks to the generosity of King Charles Robert, a new monastery in Remete with a church was constructed.
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- Number: 1348
- CROATIAN MARIAN SHRINES, miraculous statue of
- The miraculous statue of Mary is especially revered in the Shrine of Remete. Part of the Gothic wooden altar with Mary and four small saints was built into the Baroque altar from 1706, the work of Pauline sculptors Tomo Jurjević and Pavle Bellina. The year 1490 and the author's name, "brother Pavao Poljak", are engraved on the statue.
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- Number: 1347
- CROATIAN MARIAN SHRINES, Shrine of Our Lady of Trsat
- The shrine of Our Lady of Trsat, on a hill above Sušak and Rijeka, is known as the oldest Marian shrine in Croatia. The history of the shrine begins at dawn on 10 May 1291, when some lumberjacks spotted three unusual stone walls set without a foundation in a place where there had never been houses.
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- Number: 1346
- CROATIAN MARIAN SHRINES, miraculous painting
- The centre of the church and of our Lady's worship is a miraculous painting that Pope Urban V gave to the Croatian faithful in 1367 as compensation for the lost Nazareth house. According to tradition, it was painted by St. Luke on a cedar board.
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CASTLES OF CROATIA
- Type: C
- Date: 20.5.2021.
- Number: 1345
- CASTLES OF CROATIA, Erdödy
- Construction of the castle began sometime between 1483 and 1489 and during the 16th century it was extended and took on the appearance of a Renaissance castle, which has been preserved to this day without major changes, although in poor condition. For centuries, the feudal castle and the royal market lived in coexistence with the strong influence of the noble Erdödy family.
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- CASTLES OF CROATIA, Laduč
- In the 19th century Laduč bought by Vladimir Vranyczany-Dobrinović. Vladimir's daughter Tilda lived in the castle until World War II. The castle in Laduč was built in historicist style at the end of the 19th century on the foundations of an old manor house. Baron Vranyczany-Dobrinović entrusted the design and construction to the architect Kuni Waidman
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- Number: 1343
- CASTLES OF CROATIA, Brezovica Manor
- The estate belonged to various noble families (Zrinski, Drašković, Gyulaj, etc.), of which the Counts Drašković Trakošćanski left the most visible trace. They owned Brezovica from 1660 to 1807, when Janko Drašković sold the manor to the Croatian ban Ignjat Gyulaj.
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- Number: 1342
- CASTLES OF CROATIA, Novi dvori
- In 1852, the castle was bought from Aleksandar Erdödy by the then Croatian ban Josip Jelačić. The estate was owned by his family until 1934, when the ban's niece, Countess Anka Jelačić, the last descendant of the family, died. She left the estate to the Croatian people and founded four charitable foundations.
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EUROPA - ENDANGERED ANIMAL SPECIES
- Type: C
- Date: 7.5.2021.
- Number: 1341
- EUROPA - ENDANGERED ANIMAL SPECIES, Western capercaillie
- Due to its declining population, the capercaillie is strictly protected in Croatia and is considered an endangered species. Only a dozen out of the former 177 leks in our country are active, and there are just over a hundred
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- Number: 1340
- EUROPA - ENDANGERED ANIMAL SPECIES, Eurasian lynx
- According to the latest official estimate from 2010, there are 40 to 60 individuals living in Croatia, with a declining trend, so in our country the lynx is a highly endangered and strictly protected species. The major causes of endangerment are inbreeding, habitat destruction and fragmentation and poaching.
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