Culinary Croatia

City Streets and Tasty Treats

Meet your private guide at the lodging and leave by walking for a private strolling visit through Zagreb. Croatia’s exquisite capital is a mixed blend of Central European engineering and superb Mediterranean appeal. It is a city of lavish parks and roads, gaudy structures and peculiar historical centers, regular bistro culture, and open-air living. Appreciate the greenery of Zrinjevac Park, they scurry in Ban Jelacic Square and talk history in the twin middle age settlements of the Upper Town: mainstream Gradec and clerical Kaptol. Walk the Upper Town’s cobblestone roads, spot middle age towers, the energetic green market, just as old houses, and holy places. Visit the Museum of Naïve Art, to see some special ’untouchable craftsmanship’ created by Croatians throughout the long term. Proceed by funicular to the Lower Town, overwhelmed by the great structure of the Croatian National Theater. The neo-ornate structure is encircled by various Art Nouveau structures that address Croatian engineering of the finish of the nineteenth and the start of the twentieth century. After the city visit, meet your driver for a private exchange to a nearby family-possessed eatery which houses one of the greatest notable cookbook assortments in this piece of Europe, including one the world’s littlest cookbooks – ’ Wiener Kochbuch’ dating from 1900 (a simple 0.7”x0.7”). In the wake of visiting this fascinating gallery, you’ll be blessed to receive a superb supper arranged by antiquated plans from the old cookbooks close by, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. After lunch, close with an exchange back to your lodging.

Adventure into the Outdoors

Appreciate a private exchange to Rovinj with a guided 4-hour stop at Plitvice Lakes with an excursion lunch. Visit Plitvice National Park, a complex of 16 lakes situated between the mountains of Mala Kapela. The 19.5 hectares of wooden slopes encase the lakes with a progression of cascades and falls. Respect the scene framed by the mineral-rich waters that cut new ways through the stone, and appreciate a flavorful cookout lunch of sandwiches with handcrafted neighborhood prosciutto/hotdog and cheddar, new organic product, nearby Plitvice ’’strudel’’ and beverages (neighborhood lager, water, or soda pop) encompassed commonly. You will meet your neighborhood direct at the recreation center prior to entering. Extra charges and outing lunch are incorporated.

Meet your private driver for an exchange to Restaurant Meneghetti, arranged among Istrian grape plantations and olive forests 30 minutes southeast of Rovinj, at the Relais and Chateaux Wine Hotel and Restaurant Meneghetti. In the climate of an ordinary Istrian ranch-style home café, you’ll experience connoisseur ecstasy, getting a charge out of a 5-course supper with wine matching at this eminent eatery. With an occasionally evolving menu, and innovative and capable treatment of top quality, new, bona fide nearby fixings, a brilliant gastronomic encounter is standing by.

Supported by Nature

Meet your guide and driver at the inn for an entire day visit through Istria. Most popular as the truffle area, Istria is a fine mélange of the all-around flawless scene and perfect gastronomy. Its moving slopes are spotted with unassuming communities and peak towns while the coastline flaunts interesting shoreline withdraws. Your investigation begins in the inland, in the town of Livade, where you will find out about reaping truffles in a private truffle chasing exhibition with a tracker and his prepared canine, trailed by a light nibble of truffle items in a neighborhood bar. Walk the enchanting peak town of Groznjan and make the most of its creative climate, as it has large amounts of peculiar exhibitions and workmanship studios. You will likewise find a little wine area, which furnished Austro-Hungarian nobility with wine. Appreciate private wine sampling at the neighborhood winery as the ideal finish of your visit.

A Healthy Dose of History

Meet your driver for a private exchange to Zadar. On your path stop in Otocac for lunch in the neighborhood eatery Vrilo Gacke by the Gacka River, where you can track down the best trout in Europe. Manor Gacke is a family-run café where you will get an opportunity to taste the locale’s conventional strengths with a 3-course lunch including water (different beverages avoided).

Island Time

Meet your private guide and driver for an entire day visit through Pag Island, a desert garden of wild excellence. Surprising shapes, a long coastline, a plenitude of social landmarks, and scrumptious neighborhood fortes make Pag a not-to-be-missed objective. With amazing perspectives around you, drive to the little town of Kolan. Gourmand specialists and food darlings from one side of the planet to the other concur that the Pag Cheese is truly outstanding there is. Its robustness, pungency and fundamental oils give it a particular taste, scent, and unmistakable flavor. You’ll visit a neighborhood cheddar maker and appreciate a tasty private Pag cheddar tasting, finding the enjoyments of this nearby delicacy. Subsequently, you’ll be blessed to receive lunch at one of the nearby cafés where you can taste the customary Pag sheep on a spit, or pinnacle-heated vegetables and meat arranged with spices and olive oil. In the old town of Pag, find out about the exceptionally old custom of making the generally realized stitch trim. Home to the solitary ribbon-making school in Croatia, Pag loves truly its elusive social legacy. Finish up your day back in Zadar.

A Walk Through the Past

Today meet your private guide and withdraw by walking for a two-hour strolling visit through Zadar, the town of rich social and recorded legacy. An old Greek establishment under the name of Leader, later a significant gem in the Venetian crown as Zara and today the focal point of the locale, Zadar is a town-landmark with layers of history that can be uncovered at each progression. Exceptionally old turbulent history, various obliterations, and reproductions have left scars yet in addition a rich chronicled inheritance and the present significant stupendous legacy of the city. Your guide will go for a stroll through the cobblestone roads, from the congregation of St. Donat and the Cathedral of St. Anastasia to the Benedictine community of St Mary and the biggest Roman discussion on the East of the Adriatic, established by the principal Roman Emperor Augustus. You will likewise find some contemporary attractions of Zadar. One of them is the Sea Organ, the site that is a mix of human thoughts and the energy of the ocean, a spot for unwinding and examination with the hints of the interminable show of the Orchestra of Nature. Strolling further down the waterfront, you will find the Greeting to the Sun, a noteworthy metropolitan establishment. All the while with the most excellent dusk on the planet, the lightning components turn on and produce a magnificent light show in the musicality of the waves and the hints of the ocean organ.

Appreciate a private exchange from Zadar to Split.

Sights and Insights

Meet your private guide and set out by walking to investigate the exceptional 1700-year-old town of Split. The blend of common grand magnificence, rich social legacy, and the general laid-back environment of Split give this city an exceptional Mediterranean feel. Start the day by visiting Split’s green market and fish market with a gourmet specialist who will set up your lunch sometime in the afternoon, and minister the menu you’ll be testing at Kozjak Mountain. At that point, walk around the chronicled focal region with your guide, wondering about the layers of history every step of the way of the corner and each milestone. Absorb numerous long stretches of history with a visit of the living landmark of the Diocletian’s Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site tracing all the way back to the late third century, and effectively the point of convergence from which the city has created around. At the royal residence’s heart is the magnificent square of Peristil, a majestic square flanked by two corridors where the Emperor once tended to the general population. The square transcends the not-to-be-missed base of the twelfth fourteenth century Palace of Saint Domnius, which you’ll likewise visit. Subsequent to investigating the city by walking, your guide and driver will go with you to your interesting lunch setting on the slants of Kozjak Mountain. Here the cook and sommelier will invite you with a selective connoisseur experience with wonderful food and wine blending. Unwind in the interesting setting of a stone-assembled house set in the midst of the grounds of a precarious grape plantation and appreciate the best neighborhood flavors and wines of the locale. Close your day with a return move to Split.

Social Immersion

Meet your guide for a private visit through Split Hinterland with a visit to a neighborhood family for an interesting social and culinary experience. Your first objective is the unassuming community of Sinj, home of the renowned equestrian rivalry Sinj Alka. For a very long time, each first Sunday in August, neighborhood men put on their conventional outfits, ride happily dressed ponies, and run Sinj Alka to celebrate a Croatian-Venetian triumph over Ottomans on August 14, 1715. It was the nearby Christian populace of around 700 Croats in collaboration with fewer Venetians that figured out how to safeguard Sinj against 60,000 Ottoman officers. You will likewise visit Sinj Alka Museum. Proceed to Grab and five pleasant old factories specked along the twisting little stream. They have stayed right up ’til today in their unique structure are still consistently put to utilize. With the breathtaking perspectives on Cetina River Canyon, you will proceed with your ride through the delightful open country. This separated region had extraordinary importance in Croatian history – it was the home of the novel the Poljica Republic, a self-governing local area that existed in the Middle Ages. In the little town of Gata, you will be invited by a neighborhood family in their modest home. They will tell you the best way to make the customary forte from the Poljica Republic period – Soparnik. With the appealing fragrances of the neighborhood Dalmatian food, you will appreciate this fine delicacy whose unique formula opposed the progression of hundreds of years.

Taste and Tipple on a Vineyard Visit

Meet your driver for a private exchange to Dubrovnik with a stop in Ston with wine, clam tasting, and mussels cooking introduction. Upon appearance to Ston, you will meet your neighborhood private guide for a visit through this humble community celebrated for its guarded stone dividers, which ensured the valuable salt skillet that added to the Dubrovnik Republic’s riches. The historical backdrop of the salt works in Ston is over 4,000 years. It is the most established salt mine in Europe, and among the functioning ones, additionally the most seasoned on the planet. Your guide will take you to visit the salt dish, just as amazing Ston city dividers. Proceed to Peljesac Peninsula, otherwise called Croatia’s Napa Valley, to appreciate a private wine visit at the Milos winery. Quality soil and advantageous Dalmatian sun permit the grapes to deliver plentiful grape packs, customarily used to make Croatia’s most eminent wines: ”Dingač,” ”Postup” and ”Plavac.” Today you will meet the Milos family who develops their own create and keep up grape plantations flaunting fabulous wines. Take a visit through the grape plantation set on the lofty physically cultivated terraced place that is known for the Pelješac Peninsula. The grape plantations are kept up totally natural, which follows common winemaking methods joined with expanded maturing in huge Slavonian oak barrels. This ensures incredible rich wines with a serious articulation of the idea of Peljesac (an impression of the terroir) and Plavac mali cultivar. In Ston, you will appreciate an unprecedented encounter – a private visit through Ston clam ranch by an angler boat and shellfish tasting. Your host, a neighborhood clam rancher, will take you for a boat visit through his shellfish cultivates and clarify how the clams are developed and why these specific shellfish from the Mali Ston Bay have been perceived as the best Spanish fly since Roman occasions. During the boat visit, you will have a stop at your host’s private island, where you will be blessed to receive a shellfish tasting and conventional Dalmatian dish – ”mussels all scavenger.” Relax and appreciate these treats under the shade of pine trees. Proceed to Dubrovnik.

A Walk Through the Past

Meet your neighborhood direct for a private strolling visit through Dubrovnik, quite possibly the most excellent stone-constructed urban areas on the planet. In excess of long-term history is reflected in all aspects of the town. As one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Dubrovnik owes its unique appeal to the memorable landmarks which vouch for its rich history. While walking around your guide down Stradun, the principal street, pause for a visit of the Franciscan cloister of the Order of Friars Minors, saving one of the three most seasoned drug stores in the entirety of Europe. Proceed down to the fifteenth-century knight sculpture known as the Orlando Column, and the sixteenth-century Sponza Palace, at that point visit the Church of St. Blasius, devoted to the supporter holy person of the town. You’ll likewise find the middle age Rector’s Palace, the superb construction of the dukes of Dubrovnik, and the Cathedral of the Virgin Mary, home to firsts by Tiziano and Rafaelo among other important relics. A while later, you’ll head out in different directions from your guide for quite a while at recreation to investigate this shocking town all alone, permitting you to find some neighborhood interests settled in the many-sided organization of cobblestone roads. Maybe go for a stroll along with the city dividers (1.5 miles around the old town), visit one of the various galleries, or take a funicular ride to the highest point of Mount Srd. Subsequently, advance back to the inn freely.

Meet your private driver for an exchange to the port, from where you’ll set out on a remarkable and heartfelt Elafiti Islands experience this evening. Meet your English-talking captain and set out on a private nightfall journey to the Elafiti Islands where you’ll be blessed to receive a brilliant supper aground in a nearby eatery (drinks excluded). Feast with the scenery of a tranquil setting in perhaps the most heartfelt puts on the Adriatic Coast. Subsequently, rejoin your captain for your return voyage to Dubrovnik, trailed by a private exchange from the port.

Sights and Insights

Today meet your guide and driver in the inn entryway for a private visit through the Dubrovnik Hinterland – the area of Konavle. The area of differences and excellent excellence, mountains and valleys, green slopes and stripped stone; slants down to the comfortable bays of little anglers towns. Your first objective is the old Mediterranean town of Cavtat. In the same way as other Dalmatian towns, Cavtat started as a Greek settlement, called Epidaurus, and later turned into a Roman state. Toward the start of the seventh century, Avars and Slavs attacked Cavtat and obliterated the town. Exiles from the town shaped another settlement – Dubrovnik. Since those occasions, Cavtat has consistently been indivisibly limited with the historical backdrop of Dubrovnik. Your guide will go for you for a walk through this beautiful little town – its cobbled roads with conventional red-roofed houses, thin flights of stairs, and an enchanting promenade along the shore. Your walk will take you to the highest point of the slope, where you will find the exceptional Mausoleum of Račić Family, a work of Ivan Meštrović, the most unmistakable Croatian stone worker. After the walk, you will proceed with your investigation of the wide-open of Konavle. In the town of Čilipi, you will be invited by a neighborhood family to their humble provincial domain of Bakicevo. You will make the most of their neighborliness in a remarkable mood of a customary stone-constructed house. Your hosts will take you around their nursery where they develop different kinds of vegetables in an antiquated manner. The fixings that will be utilized for your lunch today come from their nursery. With the charming aromas of the neighborhood cooking, your hosts will set up the conventional Dalmatian strength of the pinnacle – food arranged under the iron ringer, for you. After this heavenly lunch, your guide and driver will return you to your lodging.

Gather Your Bags

An exchange between the air terminal and the city or your lodging with a private vehicle and driver is given.