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Unspoiled, relaxed, beautiful, and safe, Croatia is one of Europe’s loveliest treasures. Everything a discriminating visitor or home buyer is looking for can be found right here: crystal-clear seas, timeless fishing villages and unspoiled beaches, Roman ruins, Mediterranean cuisine originating from old Roman times and medieval walled cities.
Every twist and turn of the coastline serves up grandstand views of secret coves, little harbors, and calm turquoise waters. Out in the Adriatic Sea, a galaxy of islands 1244 of them, shimmer like a cache of emeralds. Number of greatest national parks, from Kornati Archipelago, Mljet Island, to National Park Plitvice waterfalls – one of the 3 most beautiful waterfalls in the world, consist of 16 lakes connected with waterfalls, and together ·with number of UNESCO protected heritage sites, cities and intangibles, makes Croatia truly the· greatest ·treasure of the Mediterranean.
Croatian cuisine is diverse and known as cuisine of different regions. Coastal cuisine is Mediterranean and healty. Croatia is famous for best truffles in the wolrd, and also oysters from Ston bay.
FORBES magazine ranks Croatia in top 12 world best retirement havens in 2011. Article describes Croatia: Sitting across the Adriatic Sea from Italy, Croatia offers great beauty, a mild Mediterranean climate, ancient culture, tax breaks for retirees and low cost of living. The Institute for Economics & Peace ·ranks it higher than the U.S. for safety and security.
Well, Forbes can’t claim to have been the first to recommend the Croatia's Dalmatian Coast as a retirement destination. That distinction goes to the Roman Emperor Diocletian (AD 245-316), the only Roman emperor ever to retire. He chose to spend his golden years in his palace in Split, where he remained until his death in year 316. The Diocletian Palace was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1979 and it remains at the heart of Split, Croatia’s second-largest city, on the coast of Adriatic Sea, as capital of Dalmatia.
Croatia has infrastructure at European standards, modern, high quality highways, high living standards, excellent· and low cost medical service etc. Croatia is accessing European Union in year 2013. The retirees in Croatia are exempted from paying income tax.· Living in Croatia assures that you can enjoy a healthy life. Fresh natural foods and good medical facilities have increased the rate of life expectancy of the people.· You will find many specialized polyclinics, hospitals and medical centers countrywide.
Celebrities are rediscovering what tourists knew in the 1980s. Croatia -- on the Adriatic arm of the Mediterranean -- rivals other European seaside areas with beaches, sailing, and superb cuisine that's attracted superstars like Steven Spielberg, Madonna, Andre Agassi, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, and Sharon Stone, Caroline of Monaco, the Prince of Hanover, the King of Jordan and the Prince of Oman, businessmen like Bill Gates, Bernie Eclesston, Roman Abramovic, Deripaska, Melnichenko, Zeleznjak etc. Many of them are owners of residential properties in Croatia, and also business investments.
Croatian real estate sales on upward scale in 2012.
As of February 2009, the property market in Croatia became more open to foreigners, especialy to the EU citizens, who are now able to buy on the same terms as local Croats. (For non-EU citizens applies reciprocity and consent of the Ministry of Justice, which is obtained in short time). This advantage now speed up the property buying procedure, and encourage more foreigner buyers to purchase in Croatia with confidence. Besides, we are licenced Croatian real estate agency and offer professional service and care to foreign buyers, leading them through buying procedures and explaining all steps of buying process, with assistance of experienced lawyers, which makes buying procedures safe, fast and with no risk.
Prices of property in Croatia going down
Example of prices for residential property varies from 70.000EUR for old stone house by the sea that needs a little bit renovation, to top luxury villas priced from 600.000EUR to several milion EUR.
Nice family house with 3 bedrooms and seaview can be found for 150.000eur, depending on the distance to the seafront and year of building.
Seaview two bedroom newbuilted apartments are available from 70.000eur.
Buy to Rent in Croatia - best investment!
Buy to rent: Croatia is developed tourist destination, according to the British Sunday Times, one of the 4 best European destinations for 2011. Croatian tourist income has not faced any recession, on the contrary, is going rapidly upward year by year. A lot owners of residential properties in Croatia and a lot of our clients, take this advantage to make extra income, so they rent their Croatian homes to tourists through European touroperators established in Croatia and specialised in villas and private accomodation rentals, with whom we have contract. Example of rental income per year: beachfront house with 4 bedrooms brings to our client, Norvegian owner 20.000EUR per year. Guests greeting and cleaning is done by our· property management, renting is done with largest european touroperators Novasol, with whom we contract, income is placed directly to owners account. Thus owner gains extra profit from his property in Croatia.
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This is a story about a land of a thousand islands, her magical nature and rich heritage, her great Men whose great deeds have forever etched the name of Croatia in large letters on the map of the world. This is a story about a land whose beauties have been celebrated since ancient times. From Cassiodorus, who wrote of the divine life led by Patricians on her shores, to Dante, who wrote his immortal verses, enthralled by the epic scenes of the blue expanse, and all the way to George Bernard Shaw, who found his paradise on Earth right here. Croatia has always been a place of true inspiration.
Croatia is one of the ecologically best preserved parts of Europe. It is a land where the hues of the sunny and warm Mediterranean happily blend with the tranquillity and freshness of mountains and the gentle sway of the golden plains of Pannonia. A land of truly divine inspiration that has delighted many of the world’s prominent men of letters. A rare European landscape which boasts as many as eight national parks in so small an area!
With Risnjak, Paklenica, the Plitvice Lakes and Northern Velebit in the mountainous area, and with the Kornati Archipelago, the island of Mljet, the Brijuni Archipelago and the Krka waterfalls in the coastal area, Croatia is indeed a jewel of the primeval beauty of nature. Adding to that two arboretums, one in Trsteno, near Dubrovnik, and Opeka, near Vinica, numerous historical parks and protected nature parks, it is indeed a green land, with as many as 4300 plant and as many animal species.
Do not delay: sail the azure blue waters of the Adriatic and discover the island which is one of the last habitats of the griffon vulture in Europe. For dedicated nature lovers in Croatia you can put to sea with an adopted dolphin or, if you are particularly lucky, encounter the mysterious and rare Mediterranean monk seal. Whatever you decide to do, you will find that this is a place where the colours of nature are at their warmest and fullest.
The Croatian cuisine is diverse and known as a cuisine of different regions. Its modern form originates from the proto-Slavic and ancient times. The differences in the selection of ingredients and preparation methods are the most obvious if we compare the continental and coastal regions.
The coastal region is characterized by the influences of the Greeks, Romans, Illyrians and later Mediterranean cuisines – Italian and French. It features many seafood specialties (squid, cuttlefish, octopus, shrimp, lobster...) prepared in various ways, olive oil, prosciutto, various vegetables, Dalmatian wines such as Babic, Malvasia, Prosecco and Vrbnik Žlahtina, and various liqueurs like the famous Maraschino.
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