The travelogue reflects on Siverić’s transformation from a bustling mining town to an abandoned settlement, exploring its rich history of labor, exploitation, and fading memories while emphasizing the importance of preserving the miners’ legacy and struggles.

Descend into Istria’s karst underground at Baredine Cave, where ancient geology, dark legends, and quiet science meet. Stalactites, underground lakes, and the pale olm – once feared as a baby dragon – reveal how nature, myth, and time intertwine beneath the peninsula of Istria.

In the heart of Omiš, the House of the Happy Man invites visitors to pause and reflect. This 16th-century stone home, marked by a timeless message of gratitude, tells a quiet story of Renaissance spirit, local heritage, and the simple joy of having walked through this world—grateful and content.

Lovrečina Castle has evolved from a medieval fortress into a rehabilitation commune for men recovering from addiction, operated by the Cenacolo Community.

Fragments of the Berlin Wall in Zagreb become a mirror for the present, reminding us that walls never disappear – they change form, location, and justification, waiting for the moment we stop recognizing them as mistakes.

After visiting the Berlin Wall in Zagreb, we move on to another wall – one with slightly more positive connotations 🙂 It is also located in Zagreb and refers to a complex of residential buildings in the New Zagreb neighborhood of Travno. Because of their length and their stepped, terraced […]

Elie Wiesel’s reflections highlight the importance of learning and tolerance, resonating with the historical significance of Split’s Old Jewish Cemetery. Once a haven for Jews during persecution, it symbolically represents their contributions and the community’s shared legacy amid tragic events of the Second World War.

It’s the dog days of summer, and I’m lying in the shade of a cherry tree beside the ruins of an ancient Roman town. I’m not a toga-clad Roman from a fresco, lounging by a bath and catching grapes with my mouth – but I can try to revive hedonism […]

When the sirocco blows, reason falters: rulers pause, crimes soften, tempers fray. From Dubrovnik to Voltaire, wind becomes politics – proof that weather, not willpower, often governs moods, decisions, and mercy in history and everyday life alike.

Swan Lake, Hawaii, the Big Lake, the Gypsy Lake, and another dozen or so waters hidden among reeds and water lilies, with little secret shores and paths for walking or cycling, framed by swans, frogs, and herons… All of this lives in Zagreb, at the Savica Lakes near the Sava […]

Under the shadows of pines and cypresses, between green and blue shades, you can see a massive, white memorial ossuary, dedicated to the fighters in a war for liberation. The park of heroes is dedicated to partisans in WWII.

What Detroit was to the USA and the car industry, Rijeka was to Yugoslavia and the shipbuilding industry. Rijeka has a rougher appearance. Parts of it look like an Austro-Hungarian crack house with palms and sea. It has a certain mess that usually comes with harbor cities. Unlike medieval and ancient streets of southern Adriatic, streets of Rijeka are more urban.

Meet Matija Gubec, Croatian Spartacus who led the Peasant revolution in the 16th century. Partisan army battalions in WW2 fought under his name, kids learn about him early in school, bands sing songs about him and his village still has a very special memory of him that I’ll reveal to you at the end.

What do wolves, Milka chocolate and president Tito have in common? They all found a place for themselves among crystal blue lakes and a hundred waterfalls of Croatian National Park – the Plitvice lakes. Here are 15 facts and guides through the most popular National park of Croatia

Yugoslav monuments, socialist architecture, brutalist buildings, or Spomeniks (Serbo-Croatian word for the monument) have made a comeback. More and more people want to see these out-of-the-world, UFO-like pieces of art created by vanguard artists of their time. Hidden in nature, forgotten by the state and often devastated, these grandiose storytellers still resist the time with a defiant attitude.

If you ever find yourself in Zagreb, you’ll probably get a recommendation to visit the famous Mirogoj cemetery. What you probably won’t get is an offbeat tour through the forgotten asylum graveyard of a psychiatric hospital – although it’s as easy as the walk in the park. Because it literally is.

Don’t worry if you’re having a hard time figuring out Croatian – or even worse: BALKAN – history. This war, that war, one Yugoslavia, two Yugoslavias (What? There was one more?)… Balkans rocky history is so messed up sometimes even we don’t know what hit us, let alone someone coming from outside.