Croatia

Croatia is enjoying booming popularity, especially in German-speaking countries. With its numerous picturesque bays and beaches as well as beautiful small towns, the Croatian Adriatic offers an unimaginable variety of holiday options.
After Slovenia, the Republic of Croatia is now the second country to emerge from the former Yugoslavia to become a full member of the European Union. The "new Croatia" is enjoying an unrivalled political and tourist success story.

Croatian climate

Along the Croatian coast, the climate is Mediterranean with warm, dry summers and mild winters, although there are still certain differences within this long stretch of coast. The reason for this is the respective location in relation to the protective mountain ranges of the mainland. As a rule of thumb, it hardly rains from mid-June to the end of August and daytime temperatures regularly climb above the 30°C mark, although the temperatures in the southern regions are usually one to two degrees higher than those in Kvarner Bay, for example.

Religion

The vast majority of Croats traditionally belong to the Roman Catholic Church (over 80 %, in Istria a good 90 %), although there are also Serbian Orthodox, Muslim and Protestant minorities in the country. The church plays an important role in Croatian life, although not as dominant as in Italy (socially) or Poland (politically). The Catholic faith serves above all as a unifying bond between the Croats and their Orthodox (Serbia, Montenegro) and Muslim (Bosnia-Herzegovina) neighbours and thus also as a legitimisation of integration into the West. In addition, various monastic orders also played a certain role in Croatian history, whose architectural monuments bear witness to the once lively missionary activity.