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Popular Off the Beaten Path | Other Off the Beaten Path Tips | All Tips (22) Besides the Franciscan church and the monastery, another ecclesiastical building in the park worth to see is St. Archangel monastery with its rich artistic and cultural treasures. This monastery is available by boat-tour only, from the direction of entrance nr. 2 of Skradin. Leave a Comment |
Krka was proclaimed a national park in 1985 and it is the seventh national park in Croatia.It is located in the Šibenik and Knin county, and occupies an area of 111km2 along the course of the Krka River, two kilometres downstream from Knin to Skradin, and two lower course of the Cikola River.
The Krka River rises at the foot of Mt Dinara not far from Knin, and its about 72 km long. Leave a Comment |
The region of the Krka River abounds in traces of ancient settlements, with numerous historical and cultural features of interest. The most ancient signs of human habitation along the Krka are Palaeolithic finds, Neolithic ceramics, flint knives and fragments of bone and urns. Along the high bank of the Krka, between Skradin (protected in its entirety as a cultural monument, and Skradinski buk there are remains of the ancient aqueduct of Roman Scardona. Leave a Comment |
Because of the richness of their flora, at the point of contact between dry and warm, and moist and stony habitiats, Roški slap, with its canyon vegetation, and barriers to be observed, are particularly interesting.
Eighteen kind of fish live in the Krka River, including ten endemic species, putting it among the highest category of natural features. The reedbeds, the lacustrine parts of the river's course and the water meadows are alive with amphibia and water birds, while the bush and stony area abound with reptiles. Leave a Comment |
A National Park of Krka is an extensive, mainly unaltered area of exceptional and diverse natural values, including one or more conserved or insignificantly changed ecosystems. Its purpose is primarly scientific, cultural, educational and recreational, and the function of the tourist industry is to assist people to visit and look around. Leave a Comment |
Bathing is not permitted in the Park outside the allowed and designated places, and the following are not allowed at all: diving and fishing with an underwater spear gun, angling without a licence, hunting, catching or disturbing the game or other animal species, picking or damaging the indigenous plants, breaking or damaging the travertine, taking dogs without a lead, filming or photographing for commercial purposes without permission, driving motor vehicles without permission on roads on which traffic is forbidden or limited, camping and lighting fires outside the designated places, dumping rubbish and polluting the springs and water-courses, or walking on the travertine barriers beyond the permitted paths. Leave a Comment |
Inside the park there are the remains of several medieval Old Croatian fortresses, from the 14th century: Trošenj-grad, Necven-grad, Bogocin-grad and Kljucica. In terms of size and degree of preservation, these are some of the most important fortified buildings in Croatia. Leave a Comment |
The Krka National Park belongs climatically to southern Europe, the Mediterranean or sub-Mediterranean, because of its particular position and the mosaic-like disposition of various types of habitiat it is distinguished by an exceptional rich and diverse flora and fauna. Eight hundred and sixty species and sub-species of plants have been recored as growing in the area of the park, among them being a number of Illyrian-Adriatic endemics. Leave a Comment |
The park can be toured from the water, by road or on foot. I suggest you foot tour which will attracts you by miraculous mixture of travertine and waterfalls, water which falls in lavish cascades, green valleysand wood covers.
Rocks, cliffs, caves, chasms, holes, small confluences, all these together create an image of something unusual and dramatic. Leave a Comment |
Thousands of tourists visit The National Park Krka every summer because the Krka is one of the most interesting and the most beautuful excursion centres in Dalmatia.
The main entrance to the National Park is at the plateau Lozovac, near town of Skradin and near Roški slap. Leave a Comment |
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on May 27, 2005
Sibenik
