Category Archives: Dubrovnik

Croatia Fires

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Some 880 fires in the first 26 days of July? What’s going on? Croatia’s head fireman suspects arson in the blazes that have been tearing through patches of the Croatian interior leaving 18 dead. Most of the fires broke out in Lika-Senj County Karlovac County, Slavonski Brod-Posavina County and Osijek-Baranja County but the hills around Dubrovnik were also blighted with fires that were quickly contained. The hinterlands of Split and Zadar also were ablaze with fires that are now contained. Croatia islands have been largely spared except for Solta which suffered a serious fire last week. Sadly, one of Croatia’s … Continue reading →

Contemporary Art Pavillion on Lopud Island

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Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Art Pavilion is traveling to the Island of Lopud, accompanied by the symposium “Patronage of Space”Your black horizon, a remarkable light installation by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, was commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and inaugurated to great critical acclaim in June 2005 as an official project at the 51st Venice Biennale of Visual Arts. London-based architect David Adjaye was engaged to work in close collaboration with Eliasson and to conceive an environment in which art and architecture were from the outset considered as one, “an interlocking equation”. It is this relationship, one of engagement and response, and … Continue reading →

Dubrovnik to Korcula by Catamaran: At last!

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Korcula Island residents are disappointed but visitors to Dubrovnik will find this new passenger ferry connection a big boon. The Nona Ana fast ferry which has been running visitors (and locals) out to the Elaphiti Islands and Mljet Island for the last few years has added a connection to Korcula this summer. This July and August, the boat will run from Dubrovnik to Sobra and Polace on Mljet Island four days a week and then continue on to Korcula. (See the schedule). With a schedule that leaves Dubrovnik in the morning and returns from Korcula in the afternoon, it’s finally … Continue reading →