Croatia Travel

Among the best known wrecks of the northern Adriatic is undoubtedly the passenger ship Baron Gautsch, lying immediately before Rovinj, a location where about ten diving centres are operating. This Austro- Hungarian passenger ship met its doom in a minefield in 1914, taking with it many innocent lives to the bottom of the sea. Its final voyage, between Dalmatia and Trieste, came to a tragic end in the waters west of the Brijuni islands in a freshly laid minefield designed to defend the naval port of Pula, by the Austro-Hungarian mine-laying vessel Basilisk. The vessel is 84.5 m long and with a beam of 11.6 m. Powered by three steam engines with a total output of 4600 hp it had a maximum speed of 17 knots. It is located 6 nm SW of the lighthouse Sveti Ivan na pu?ini at a depth of from 28 to 40 m. The upper deck is reached at 28 m while the lower lies at 42 m. The lower sections of the ship have not yet been fully researched, but it is known that many divers illegally searching for precious items and souvenirs have significantly devastated the wreck. Today, the remains of the Baron Gautsch are under the protection of the Ministry of Culture, and diving is possible only if organized by a licensed diving centre.

The Adriatic Sea has for ages been the closest maritime route from the central Mediterranean and the seats of the great civilisations of the antiquity to the northern regions and the central European mainland. As an important route its shores bear the indelible traces of all periods of the development of global and European civilisation, both on land and beneath its blue surface. Astronauts have seen that the seas of the world truly have the colour their name imparts them: the Red Sea is truly red, the Black Sea black and the Adriatic Sea ? a true blue sea. By its configuration and its level of indentation the Croatian shores of the Adriatic Sea bring together all of the geological diversity of the Mediterranean, it has for thousands of years been the crossroads of all routes linking the European and Asian regions (the Near East), it is home to the oldest traces of the formation of western civilisation, and, climatically protected by the Alps, it preserves a warm Mediterranean clime deep into the north of the European mainland. The Croatian shores of the Adriatic are for this reason considered a unique example of the integration of the wealth of the Mediterranean, not only by its history, but also by its natural beauty.

The geographical variety found in Croatia offers excellent starting points for an equally wide variety of attractions for an active stay. There are practically no programme or time limitations, except, of course, for those set by choice by the guests themselves.

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