Dalmatia (Split & Dubrovnik)2 places
- Split & Diocletian's PalaceA Roman emperor's retirement palace that never became a ruin, because people simply moved in and never left — so its…
- DubrovnikA walled marble city jutting into the Adriatic, once an independent merchant republic that outmanoeuvred bigger powers…
Istria & the Kvarner (Plitvice)2 places
- IstriaCroatia's northern peninsula, quietly Italian in feel, with a Venetian fishing town stacked on a headland, a nearly…
- Plitvice LakesSixteen lakes stacked in a wooded canyon, each spilling into the next over natural stone dams, the water an unreal…