National Park – Croatia

In Croatia, eight national parks were declared.

NATIONAL PARK PAKLENICA
National park Paklenica is located in behind of Starigrad and embraces two canyons, Velika and Mala Paklenica. National park Paklenica is magnificent karst phenomenon, and steepish sides of canyon are high too. Paklenica is an region of unique and exceptional touch of sea and mountains, rich in woods of beech and black pines, caves and abysses. On the field of National Park Paklenica from coast to highest tops of Velebit there are roughly 800 herbal sorts. Of these, some 40 are endemical, plants of small spread.

NATIONAL PARK RISNJAK
National Park Risnjak was formed national park in 1953. The grandness of National Park Risnjak is in the fact that in not so wide area, thanks to tangle area of Gorski kotar, at that place intertwine different climate influences: heavy Alps clime, mild area of the continental characteristics of Panonska nizina and mountain freshness of Dinaridi. Risnjak bears an outstanding role in health tourism and it is particularly attractive for travels – mountain mood, areas for wintertime sports, mountain runways, hunting and fishing.

NATIONAL PARK NORTHERN VELEBIT
National Park Northern Velebit was declared in 1999 as 8th and the youngest national park in. Area was constituted national park because of explicit differences of karst phenomena, magnificence of living world and extreme natural beauties on relatively smallish surface area.

NATIONAL PARK KRKA
National park Krka is on the surface area of and river Krka is karst phenomenon which, getting through towards the sea, shapes many lakes, cascades and rapids. On Island Visovac on the lake of the very name, between two most picturesque cascades – Roski slap and Skradinski buk – there is Franciscan monastery.

NATIONAL PARK KORNATI
National Park Kornati is group of islands of around 140 islands, islets and reefs based in centre part of Croatian Adriatic. Because of its exquisite regional beauties, interesting geomorphology, big indented of coastal line and especially colorful biocenosis of sea ecosystem in year 1980 bigger share of sea ecosystem of seascape of Kornati was stated national park.

NATIONAL PARK MLJET
Island Mljet is the greenest Adriatic island, and the third of island belongs to National Park Mljet. Island Mljet was constituted national park because of extreme natural beauty, fullness of flora and fauna, composition of salty lakes making up unusual geological and oceanographic phenomenon, and because of big cultural – historical heritage, which, in long series from time of Illyrian tribes, Roman Empire, Republic of Dubrovnik, passes on to present days of life of modern-day man who created stabile life conditions here in concord with intact nature.

NATIONAL PARK BRIJUNI
Island Brijuni by southwest coast of Croatia, was established national park in 1983. It is constituted of 14 islands and islets, of which the largest are Veliki and Mali Brijuni. Islands are covered in sub-Mediterranean vegetation, offering tourists spirit of intact nature. On the island there are zoological garden, and safari park, with many different animal species from all over the world. Traces of human race on the island date from younger neolitik , and amongst numerous archeological sites the most fundamental is prehistorically village on hill Gradina. In bay Verige there are remains of true country villa of Roman temple, and on the western coast ancient old Byzantine castrum and Byzantine basilica of Saint Mary from 6th century.

NATIONAL PARK PLITVICE LAKES
National Park Plitvice Lakes is the hugest and the oldest national park and one of the most famed European parks and natural monument put on the List of world heritage of UNESCO. This is woodland, mountain domain in which there are 16 bigger and littler lakes. With numerous sorts of birds and little game, in Park there are also deer, bears, wild boars and wild cats, and in the water trouts. National Park Plitvice Lakes is the legendary tourist goal and travel site.