Cronavigo

It isn't really Croatian fiction that the Eastern Adriatic coast is the most beautiful coast in the Mediterranean! As a matter of fact, this is something we have learnt from others including globetrotters, famous seafarers and even Roman Emperors! The Romans chose this coast to settle and built their villas, palaces - whole towns in fact - to indulge in leisure, entertainment and delight. Nowhere else throughout the Mediterranean will you find so many islands, bays, coves, picturesque beaches and cliffs gilded with sunshine. What we have just said is maybe best proved by the fact that as many as five of the eight National Parks and five Nature Parks are located here.
The towns along the coast are true jewels of Mediterranean architecture. Each stone can tell its own story as their memory reaches far back into history recalling the sails of the Argonauts and those of Roman galleys; Venetian high-ranking state officials and merchants from Dubrovnik on their carracks and argosies. It is not just a phrase when we say that there are more than a hundred small towns, villages and islands on the Dalmatian coast where one gets the impression that time stopped long ago; somewhere in the Middle Ages or in the Renaissance.
Petrified moments of the past centuries can also be recognized in the bell-towers of Rab; in the churches, palaces and pavements of Hvar, Dubrovnik and Zadar; in the balustrades of Korčula; and particularly in the monumental Šibenik Cathedral wreathed in sculptured portraits of medieval citizens of Šibenik; not to mention the villas on the Brijuni archipelago or the monumental church-towers in Pula.
Petrified time - almost literally so - can be seen in some sixty 1000-year-old little stone churches scattered along the Croatian coast, from Istria in the north down to Dubrovnik in the south. Inside these ancient beauties, it is the permanent play of the sun-beams that tells the time and which makes each of these churches, in a very special way, both a clock and a calendar at the same time.
Beside them you will see cypresses and olive trees; lavender and immortelle flowers and vineyards. In the shade of pine trees you will witness day-to-day life, abundant with scents and sounds; cheese and wine, grilled fish, prosciutto and the evening song.... Experience the heaving green sea of olive trees and vineyards in the hinterland and notice the scattered herds of sheep, the dry-stone walls and the myriad hamlets and villages.
If you wish to see and feel the Mediterranean at its best, all you have to do is visit it and it will become clear to you why the Croatian coast of the Adriatic Sea is often called the jewel of the Mediterranean.
We suggest to start your cruising from famous tourist destinations Split or Dubrovnik.

Split
Split, second largest city in Croatia is economic, administrative, educational, sport and tourist center of Split Dalmatia county (Middle Dalmatia), traffic connection to Croatia islands, pearls of Adritic like Hvar, Vis, Brac and Solta. Alongside their intakes in ancient times cities evolved. Greek settlements provided the basic civilization of the eastern Adriatic coast. Towns like Salona (present-day Solin, an important stronghold of the Roman province of that time), Epetium (Stobreč), Tragurium (Trogir), Siculi (Resnik) and Aspalathos (Split) the Greek colonists founded. These settlements along with the Bay of Kaštela, eastern part of the island of Šolta and Čiovo, also continental hinterland of highlands arrays of Mosor and Kozjak form part of Dalmatian region, whose administrative, economic, traffic, educational, sport and tourist centre is second largest city in Croatia, town of Split.
Split area is regarded as one of the world’s sunniest places of the middle Mediterranean territory with extremely bright sky and with about 2700 sunny hours per year which makes Split and its surroundings the warmest part of the northern coast of Mediterranean.
The most significant green surface of the whole city district is Marjan. Its slopes are at the early spring covered by the specific plant that has intensive yellow flower called Brnistra.
Dubrovnik
The city of Dubrovnik is situated in the very south of the Republic of Croatia.  The city of Dubrovnik is surrounded by a group of islands known as the Elaphite archipelago (Šipan, Lopud, Koločep, Tajan, Olipa, Jakljan and Daksa).  Dubrovnik, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, is rich in cultural and historical monuments. There is also the annual Dubrovnik Summer Festival.  A classical Dubrovnik? Comfortable hotels, excellent service, traditional Mediterranean cuisine, concerts, museums, walks along Stradun, and coffee on the terrace of the City Café.