Do not hesitate to reach us out.
Tell us your wishes and desires.
+385 91 792 4122
Info@delmata-travel.hr
This is our special package done in the collaboration with the Croatian Infiltration team. The itinerary is a combination of green locations in nature and dark locations that are hiding the secrets of Croatian history. Come and learn about Nikola Tesla’s and Tito’s project that stayed unwritten in the modern history.
Zagreb, Ljubljana, Pula, Trieste
Welcome to Zagreb! We will welcome you at the place of your arrival and transfer you to your accommodation. You will spend your day enjoying Zagreb and experiencing the unique and easy way of life. On a private guided sightseeing tour, you will get to know its lovely streets, interesting traditions and charming restaurants that make it the perfect place for your vacation. The first day is going to be free of exploration activities but during the evening hours, you will have a meeting with your exploration guide that will lead you through the journey. You will go briefly through the plan together. Welcome dinner will be organized in one of the restaurants in the center of the city.
In the early morning hours, you will head to Petrova Gora. The monument celebrates the uprising and resistance movement of the people of Kordun and Banija against nazi-fascism and commemorates the victims of nazi-fascism, both civilian victims and fallen resistance fighters. After the exploration, you will head to the most famous National park in Croatia – Plitvice Lakes. The park is world famous for its 16 turquoise lakes arranged in cascades and connected with magnificent waterfalls. It also has the largest waterfall in Croatia, with a height of 78 meters. Your accommodation is going to be inside of the National Park so you can take all the time you need to explore it.
This day takes you on the Croatian coastline. With a short boat ride, you will visit “Goli” island in the morning hours. Goli Otok is a barren, uninhabited island that was the site of a political prison in use when Croatia was a part of Yugoslavia. The prison was in operation between 1949 and 1989. It is also known as ‘Croatian Alcatraz’ because of its location and high security. After the island exploration, you will go back to the mountain area and visit Nikola Tesla’s hometown, Smiljan. In the village there is a Nikola Tesla memorial center which was opened in 2006. The whole village is turned into the memorial center.
In the morning hours you will head to Villa Izvor or “Object 99” is located in a forest close to the Plitvice National Park, and was used as a private villa of Josip Broz Tito. The now abandoned mansion was commisioned by Tito himself after WW2. It was built from 1948. to 1953. by political prisoners from Goli otok, Gradiška and Lepoglava. After Tito’s villa, you will heat to Željava. Construction of Željava began in 1948 and was completed in 1968. During those two decades, SFRJ (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) spent approximately $6 billion on its construction, three times the combined current annual military budgets of Serbia and Croatia. It was one of the largest and most expensive military construction projects in Europe. The role of the facility was to establish, integrate, and coordinate a nationwide early warning radar network in SFRJ akin to NORAD. The complex was designed and built to sustain a direct hit from a 20-kiloton nuclear bomb, equivalent to the one dropped on Nagasaki.
Kumrovec, the birthplace of Tito, has all sorts of natural and architectoral beauty, as well as specific local cuisine. The political school was a unique concept of the time, where the children of politicians were tutored privately and prepared to someday lead the country. The facility was state of the art and had a cinema, theatre, media library as well as a fallout shelter in case of war. After Kumrovec, you will head to the castle Trakošćan that was built in 14th century, inside of the castle there is a museum that was established in 1953, now it is owned by the Republic of Croatia.
Depending on the time of your departure, various activities can be organized. If you do not want any activities on this day, you can take a walk through Maksimir, an 18th-century park which houses the Zagreb city ZOO, or go for a ride on the funicular and experience the traditional market in the city center.
