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Brseč
Brseč ( it, Bersezio) is a village in western Croatia. It is part of Mošćenička Draga municipality in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. The village is located on the steep, eastern shore of the Istrian peninsula, on cliffs high above the Kvarner Gulf, about south of Opatija. It is connected to Rijeka and Pula by the D66 highway. Notable people *Eugen Kumičić (1850–1904), writer. Monuments and sights Art installation "Strokes and Incisions" "Strokes and Incisions", a site-specific art installation authored by Danish-Austrian artist Sofie Thorsen can be found in the small park next to the bocce court at the very entrance to Brseč. Thorsen was inspired by a primary school in Brseč closing after more than one hundred and seventy-five years of continuous work. The installation consists of three stone objects whose shapes and colors symbolize paper, and the incised lines represent a fountain pen. The engraved forms were created on the basis of three pre-existing inscri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Kumičić
Eugen Kumičić (11 January 1850 – 13 May 1904) was a prominent Croatian writer and politician. Kumičić was one of the most prolific Croatian novelists of the realism era and a pioneer of naturalism in Croatian literature. Biography Kumičić was born in Brseč, Mošćenička Draga (now in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County), a small town in Istria, then part of the Austrian Empire. After majoring philosophy at the University of Vienna, he returned to Croatia and worked as a teacher in high schools in Split and Zadar. From 1875 to 1878 he spent two years in Paris and six months in Venice, preparing for his French and Italian teaching examinations. While in France, he came into contact with naturalist writing, primarily through the works of Émile Zola. Upon returning to Croatia, he spent the period from 1879 to 1883 teaching French and Italian in a Zagreb high school. During that time, he became actively involved with the Croatian literary scene, as well as political activism. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mošćenička Draga
Mošćenička Draga ( it, Draga di Moschiena) is municipality in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia. It has 1,535 inhabitants, 90.7% of which are Croats. It is situated southwest of Opatija under Mt. Učka. Settlements The centre of the municipality is the former fishing village of Mošćenička Draga which is today a tourist resort with two beaches, small marina and walking paths. Above Mošćenička Draga there is the hilltop town of Mošćenice. Other settlements in the municipality are: * Brseč Brseč ( it, Bersezio) is a village in western Croatia. It is part of Mošćenička Draga municipality in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. The village is located on the steep, eastern shore of the Istrian peninsula, on cliffs high above the Kvarn ... * Cesare * Donje Selo * Donji Kraj * Golovik * Gornji Kraj * Grabrova * Gradac * Kalac * Martina * Obrš * Potoki * Prem * Rovini * Selce * Sučići * Sveta Jelena * Sveti Anton * Sveti Petar * Trebišća Gallery File:Mosceni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D66 (Croatia)
D66 is a state road in Croatia, connecting A9 motorway with D8 state road in Matulji. D66 road serves as a connection to a number of towns and resorts along the eastern coast of Istria peninsula, including Opatija, Lovran and Ičići, as well as to Brestova ferry port, from which Jadrolinija ferries fly to island of Cres ( D100). The northern terminus of the road also provides a link towards Rijeka via D8 state road and to Matulji interchange on A8 motorway. The road is 90.1 km long. The road, as well as all other state roads in Croatia, is managed and maintained by Hrvatske ceste, a state-owned company. Traffic volume Traffic is regularly counted and reported by Hrvatske ceste, operator of the road. Substantial variations between annual (AADT Annual average daily traffic, abbreviated AADT, is a measure used primarily in transportation planning, transportation engineering and retail location selection. Traditionally, it is the total volume of vehicle traffic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Regions Of Croatia
The Republic of Croatia is administratively organised into twenty counties, and is also traditionally divided into four historical and cultural regions: Croatia Proper, Dalmatia, Istria, and Slavonia. These are further divided into other, smaller regions. Historical regions Smaller regions * Banovina (or Banija) is a region in central Croatia, situated between the rivers Sava, Una and Kupa. * Baranja forms a small enclave between the region of Slavonia and the Republic of Hungary, it lies in the north east of Croatia. The rest of the region known as Baranja is located in Hungary. *Croatian Littoral (''Hrvatsko primorje'') the maritime region of Croatia proper * Gorski kotar the region occupies the area between the major cities of Karlovac and Rijeka (a.k.a. ''Fiume''). The regions main city is Delnice. The river Kupa separates the region from the Republic of Slovenia in the north. *Konavle forms a small subregion of Dalmatia in the very south of Croatia and stretche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kvarner Gulf
The Kvarner Gulf (, or , la, Sinus Flanaticus or ), sometimes also Kvarner Bay, is a bay in the northern Adriatic Sea, located between the Istrian peninsula and the northern Croatian Littoral mainland. The bay is a part of Croatia's internal waters. The largest islands within the Kvarner are Cres, Krk, Pag, Rab and Lošinj. A portion of the Kvarner Bay, located between Cres, Krk, Rab and Pag is also called ''Kvarnerić'' (literally "little Kvarner") or or , and the portion east of Krk and Rab is called Senj Channel. The bay is notable for its depth (more than 100 meters), which allows for the city of Rijeka at its northernmost point to have a sea port that can accommodate Capesize ships. The bay is also home to many beaches and tourist locations because of its beautiful waters and warm climate. See also * Geography of Croatia The geography of Croatia is defined by its location—it is described as a part of Central Europe and Southeast Europe, a part of the Balkans an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Site-specific Art
Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork. Site-specific art is produced both by commercial artists, and independently, and can include some instances of work such as sculpture, stencil graffiti, rock balancing, and other art forms. Installations can be in urban areas, remote natural settings, or underwater. History The term "site-specific art" was promoted and refined by Californian artist Robert Irwin but it was actually first used in the mid-1970s by young sculptors, such as Patricia Johanson, Dennis Oppenheim, and Athena Tacha, who had started executing public commissions for large urban sites. For ''Two Jumps for Dead Dog Creek'' (1970), Oppenheim attempted a series of standing jumps at a selected site in Idaho, where "the width of the creek became a specific goal to which I geared a bodily activity," with his two successful jumps being "dictated by a land f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opatija
Opatija (; it, Abbazia; german: Sankt Jakobi) is a town and a municipality in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia. The traditional seaside resort on the Kvarner Gulf is known for its Mediterranean climate and its historic buildings reminiscent of the Austrian Riviera. Geography Opatija is located northwest of the regional capital Rijeka, about from Trieste by rail and from Pula by road. The city is geographically on the Istrian peninsula, though not in Istria County. The tourist resort is situated on the Kvarner Gulf, part of the Adriatic coast, in a sheltered position at the foot of Učka massif, with the ''Vojak'' peak reaching at a height of . cesnus, the municipality had 10,661 inhabitants in total, of which 5,715 lived in the urban settlement. The town is a popular summer and winter resort, with average high temperatures of 10 °C in winter, and 32 °C in summer. Opatija is surrounded by beautiful woods of bay laurel. The whole sea-coast to the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia
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Istria
Istria ( ; Croatian language, Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; ist, Eîstria; Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian, Italian language, Italian and Venetian language, Venetian: ; formerly in Latin and in Ancient Greek) is the largest peninsula within the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Kvarner Gulf. It is shared by three countries: Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy.Marcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer''History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe: junctures and disjunctures in the 19th And 20th Centuries'' John Benjamins Publishing Co. (2006), Alan John Day, Roger East, Richard Thomas''A political and economic dictionary of Eastern Europe'' Routledge, 1sr ed. (2002), Croatia encapsulates most of the Istrian peninsula with its Istria County. Geography The geographical features of Istria include the Učka/Monte Maggiore mountain range, which is the highest portion of the Ćićarija/Cicceria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Counties Of Croatia
The counties of Croatia ( hr, hrvatske županije) are the primary administrative subdivisions of the Republic of Croatia. Since they were re-established in 1992, Croatia has been divided into 20 counties and the capital city of Zagreb, which has the authority and legal status of both a county and a city (separate from the surrounding Zagreb County). As of 2015, the counties are subdivided into 128 cities and 428 (mostly rural) municipalities. The divisions have changed over time since the medieval Croatian state. They reflected territorial losses and expansions; changes in the political status of Dalmatia, Dubrovnik and Istria; and political circumstances, including the personal union and subsequent development of relations between the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and the Kingdom of Hungary. Government County assembly ( hr, županijska skupština, label=none) is a representative and deliberative body in each county. Assembly members are elected for a four-year term by popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture, and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
