June 24, Thursday. 6th day. Today we are planning a trip to croatian national park: Brijuni (Brijuni or Brioni), which is located on the island of Big Brion (southwestern coast of the Istrian peninsula).
Only yesterday we got a rented car, in which we also gladly visited an unusual town. Today we plan to explore more distant surroundings.
IN 9.45 departure from the hotel (near Porec). We keep our way to the town Fazana (Fazana). On the way, we accidentally make a small detour, having entered Pool (Pula).
10.45 Having strayed a little along its outskirts and having driven 61 km from the hotel, we arrive at port... We easily find nearby free parking and we go to study offers for the delivery of us to isle.
It turns out that all private cabmen-boatmen can take us on a boat around the Brijuni Islands, but without disembarking. This walk takes 2 hours. You can add to this program swimming on a small island nearby. Another 2 hours extra.
And to make excursiondirectly around the islandyou need to contact your local travel agency. Only they can sell tickets there. We ask that it costs 200 kuna per person (28 euros), while they promise to provide a Russian-speaking guide. The departure time of the boat is at 13.45.
We have 1.5 hours of free time. Well, what can you do next to the sea, especially when the sun is shining wonderfully in the sky? Sure, bathe... We get into the car and drive towards Pula. After about 3-5 km, we turn onto a side road leading to the sea. We drive up to wild beach and spontaneous parking.
It all looks like a wonderful meadow on which pines of amazing beauty grow. There are no prohibitive and permissive signs. A few cars are parked right on the lawn in the shade of pine trees. We follow their example, we drive up to the sea itself.
The water is clean, so transparent that you can see the bottom at a very great depth.
In the sunlight, you can clearly see how it changes color from turquoise green at a shallow depth, to blue and blue at a great depth. Swimming in such a calm and wild place is simply fabulous! And if we add to this the absolutely stunning coniferous aroma from the trees growing nearby, then words cannot even convey the beauty and power of these sensations!
Having bathed and sunbathed a little, we return to the port Fazana (for some reason, again through Pula, there is something magnetized there). 😕 We still have half an hour to eat at a small port restaurant. Pancakes and tea are what you need before traveling to the reserved island.
IN 13.45 loading on boat... Entrance is strictly on tickets, there are a lot of people. There are not enough seats for everyone, people stand like on a bus during rush hour. Fortunately, the road to the island takes about 10-15 minutes (distance 3.5 km from the mainland). I wonder what kind of Russian guide were they talking about when such a crowd of multilingual tourists formed?
Everything is clarified on the shore. All arrivals meet several people with signs in which the language is written excursion... People are very quickly sorted into groups. Some guides immediately put "their tourists" on the trailers of electric trains and take them to different parts of the island. The population immediately diminishes.
The tour begins. Everything is quite interesting and informative.
National park Croatia's "Brijuni Islands" is an archipelago of 14 small islands.
The largest of them not so long ago (in the 20th century) was residencecroatian President Tito.
Currently, access is allowed here, but with certain restrictions. Only residents of several elite hotels, people who come to play golf (must be agreed in advance), as well as organized groups of tourists can stay here. Apparently, therefore, private boats cannot dock on the island and drop off passengers there.
We started our inspection with parrot koki, which is almost 50 years old.
He can speak Croatian, which he showed us not very willingly. But as they say, he swears in this language very masterly.
Then we walked through beautiful garden with different trees, in which they tried to breathe with admiration the magnificent air filled with the aroma of pine needles, laurel, flowering linden and many, many things unknown, but very tasty.
After that we examined president's cadillac weighing 3 tons. They say that it is still on the move and for 400 euros you will be happy to ride it around the island for half an hour. In extreme cases, you can just sit inside and take a picture for 50 kn. No volunteers were found.
Then there was the museum... On the ground floor there is a fairly large collection of stuffed animals that lived on this island or were donated to the president. All of them died in due time and now flaunt in the form of stuffed animals. A sad sight. 😥 Probably, President Tito (at one time) was interested in watching all this.
On the 2nd floor - an exhibition of photographs of the President with different famous people his time. There are also crowned heads, politicians, scientists, artists.
Everything looks very nice and well-groomed. The guide told in detail what and where to see.
First of all, it is, of course, nature. Lush vegetation, magnificent meadows, ancient oaks (native species), the crown of which is 10-20 meters in diameter.
All this is well-groomed and trimmed, it looks very neat.
It turns out that some horned animals (deer, mouflons, etc.) are watching this beauty on the island. They nibble the grass from the meadows, and eat the lower crown and foliage from the trees. As a result, everything is very neat. There are several hundreds of them "working" here.
We stopped at safari Parkwhich was assembled by President Titus. A rather miserable sight appeared before us: several shabby ostriches, zebras, a lonely elephant, and, mainly, local horned animals: goats, rams, etc.
The best looking seagulls. But these were free birds, not tied to the reserve.
The most interesting was the story about local seals that lived in a fairly deep pool (now it is empty). So this couple (tired of such despair) by some miracle jumped over the fence of the pool, then over the fence of the park and swam into the Adriatic Sea! To be honest, we were very sorry that other animals could not follow such an inspiring example.
After that we continued on our way to steam locomotive along west coast islands where original vegetation has been preserved. We saw excavations of ancient buildings, an old olive tree (somewhere around the 4th century AD).
At the end of the 7-kilometer route on a tourist train, we visited an old quarry and a Catholic church, where a copy of an ancient stone slab with a Glagolitic text is kept. This was the end of the tour of the island.
There were still almost 50 minutes left until the return departure of the boat (at 17.30). We asked the guide if it was possible to swim here, she said that of course. There is a hotel not far from the pier beach... For some reason, it was written on the tickets, but the travel agency confirmed to us that it was forbidden to swim on the island.
Delighted at such an opportunity, we went to look for a secluded place for swimming.
We found an absolutely wonderful launch and entry into the water. The purest green-turquoise water of the wonderful island refreshed us with joy. And the warm rays of the evening sun - dried.
IN 18.05 departed from Fazana (Fazana) home to the side Porec... A small incident happened here: my navigator in the form of navigator Julia malfunctioned. By some incomprehensible path, we drove to the very center of the peninsula and reached Pazin. This unexpected route turned out to be, of course, long (extra 30-40 km), but very nice. 🙂
The whole road ran through green fields and forests. Occasionally there were small villages in which their inhabitants slowly went about their daily affairs. From Pazin to Porec, the road ran through a very picturesque and hilly area with absolutely stunning pine forests and the complete absence of signs of human life. True, sometimes, quite unexpectedly, there were restaurants or apartments.
19.35 arrived at the hotel.
The result of the day is 158 km.
We are starting to enjoy driving our rented car. Tomorrow we are planning to leave our Istrian peninsula and see what awaits us on the mainland behind a multi-kilometer tunnel under a strange name.
At the request of the moderator, I share my impressions and photos from visiting the Josip Broz Tito Museum in Croatia.
I managed to visit the Museum of the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito two years ago as part of an excursion to the islands of the Brijuni archipelago. Not that I was going there because of the museum, but the visit was definitely worth it. We learned a lot about Yugoslavia and its famous leader.
Brijuni National Park is located on an archipelago of 14 islands off the western coast of the Istrian peninsula. The park is famous for its subtropical climate and the fact that it was the residence of the head of socialist Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito and his makeshift zoo. Now there is also the Tito Museum.
Excursion liners bring tourists to the central island of Big Brijuni. The museum was very close to the embankment and was the first stop of the excursion program. 
The main exhibits of the museum are memorable photographs from the life of the Marshal. He was very fond of taking photographs, and representatives of the authorities of many world powers visited him. Also in the photographs are captured the hobbies and interests of Tito, his life and activities here in Brijuni. 
From the "barrel with a door" one could get into the chief's wine cellar. Usually he did this - he made the guest guess how many bottles fit in this barrel. After the guests tried to guess and appreciate, he opened the door "into the barrel" and led the guests into a huge cellar, where there was many times more wine than it could fit. 
Tito loved to hunt. 
Take pictures. 
Collected animals. The elephant in the photo is a gift from Gandhi. Many leaders gave him animals from their countries. Some of the animals still live in Brijuni. 
Soviet guests. 
With the English queen. 
the guests were not only politicians, but also people of culture and art, movie stars of those times. 
In addition to photographs, we managed to capture a few other exhibits. There were really few of them.
Drawings of the mega-yacht Galeb (aka "The Seagull"). The ship is now bought by an American billionaire living in France. At one time, Tito visited many countries on his beloved "Seagull". 
old map with roads of Greater Brijuni. 
Microscope. It was used by the leader, apparently, for agro-industrial research.
IN large hall there are plaques with images of the flags of the countries with which Yugoslavia maintained diplomatic relations (read who was here on Brijuni). 
Apparently it is on the map. 
Some of the animals donated to the marshal have already died due to their short life cycle. They made stuffed animals and exhibited the last exhibition in the Tito Museum. I don't like stuffed animals. 
After visiting the museum and all the stories of the guide, there was a significant respect for the still almost unknown Yugoslav socialist leader. True, I would like to see more exhibits here besides photos, although in general they conveyed the atmosphere.
The leader's favorite Cadillac is now also in Brijuni. 
In addition to the Tito Museum, there is a mini-zoo inherited from him on the island, ancient buildings from the times of the Roman Empire, a small catholic Church, Botanical Garden. There were a lot of impressions from visiting the island. In case of interest - the full story of the trip to Brijuni can be seen
When I did not mention that in addition to sardine fishing, the fishing town is attractive for one more reason: from here every hour a ferry leaves for the Brijuni National Park (the cost of a round-trip ticket is 22 euros).
The Brijuni Reserve is, as they say, a universal place. The national park will appeal to those who like to contemplate seascapes, and those who are eager to go on a safari and look at deer on free grazing (there are many shy Bambi brothers here), and those who are interested in archeology: the ruins of ancient Roman villas and temples have been preserved on Brion. and buildings from the times of Byzantium.
But the main attraction of Brijuni is the dinosaur paw prints found here: traces of theropods (predatory lizards) can be observed on the coastal limestone, which in ancient times was sand.
In principle, only smokers may not like Brijuni, since smoking in the National Park is allowed only in specially designated areas, and not everywhere - the local administration protects the flora and fauna of the reserve.
Upon arrival at Brijuni, we immediately rented bicycles, they are the main means of transportation around the island.
Lazy people can rent electric cars designed for golfers - there are several golf courses in Brionne.
Lovers of this noble game live in one of the three luxury hotels on the pier of Brijuni. In the vicinity of the hotels there is a yacht marina and restaurants with a magnificent view of the bay and prices that are toothy like the jaws of a theropot. We can say that modern yachtsmen and golf lovers have adopted the tradition of settling in Brijuni from the ancient Romans, the ruins of villas of which can be seen on the island.
Well, something, and the ability to live beautifully from the ancient Romans is worth learning. The villas of the noble patricians were located along the perimeter of the bay, each had a descent to the water and a pier for boats overlooking the bay.
There was also a temple dedicated to Venus on the seashore (as you know, the goddess of love came to earth from the foam of the sea in the bay of Cyprus, so that her temple is located near the water).
By the way, the origin of the island of Brijuni is also connected with a legend, no less beautiful than the story of Aphrodite.
According to legend, God, creating the world, instructed an angel working on a project for an earthly paradise to deliver stones there. The evil devil decided to interfere with the creator and tore the angel's bag. Several stones fell from the bag into the sea, thus the island of Brijuni appeared. In a word, the ancient Romans chose a truly divine place for their residence.
Now the main inhabitants of Brijuni are not golfers or yachtsmen, but deer, which were brought to the archipelago in 1893. In the local climate, deer have taken root and bred so much that now the island is home to whole herds.
In the photo: the forest where deer live, unfortunately, getting close to the deer and photographing them is unrealistic
Reindeer walk on free grazing, unfortunately, it is absolutely unrealistic to photograph them, it is worth trying to approach the flock peacefully chewing grass, as the reindeer rush with lightning speed.
In the photo: a column in the Church of St. Mary
In the center of the island are the ruins of the Byzantine Church of St. Mary, built in the 5th century AD. The columns and porticoes are beautifully preserved; between the stones, bright green lizards scurry about, no less shy and agile than the local deer.
Photo: goats-beggars in the National Park
In addition to the animals that live on the island in their natural environment, a zoo is also open in Brijuni, here in pens reminiscent of American farms, zebras, buffaloes, a couple of ostriches and impudent goats walk imposingly, who, seeing tourists, get out of the enclosures and go to beg. It is not forbidden to feed goats.
In the photo: a dinosaur statue on the banks of Brijuni
Directly behind the zoo is the Dinosaur Park, that is, the area where the researchers found the paw prints of theropots. A sign near the shore reports that seven-meter-long predatory dinosaurs were walking here, and a statue on the shore gives an idea of \u200b\u200bwhich inhabitants of Jurassic Park used to walk along the coast of the island.
When you observe the footprints of dinosaurs, an irrational thought creeps into your head that maybe predatory lizards are still hiding somewhere in the thickets of the reserve? From this idea goose bumps begin to run down the skin.
However, if you manage to subdue your imagination to the mind, then the seashore with dinosaur paw prints is a great place for a picnic. The only thing is that it is better to take food to the island with you, since in a cafe in the center of the National Park you can buy only drinks and ice cream (even for simple sandwiches you will have to return to the pier), so before going to Brijuni it makes sense to be puzzled about collecting food for a picnic.
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To the north of Pula lies Brioni (Brioni in Italian), a small archipelago of fourteen islets that once served as Tito's personal residence. The area was then declared a national park and opened to tourists in 1983. Visitors are still only allowed on two islands: Veli Brijuni and Mali Brijuni, and under strict control. You can visit the archipelago as part of a tourist group - goes to the island of Veli Brijuni tourist train - or in one of the expensive hotels in Veli Brijuni. In the latter case, you can freely walk around part of the island on your own, without a guide.
Most of the visitors arrive at the archipelago through the small fishing town of Fažana, which is 8 kilometers northwest of Pula. From the city you can get there by bus number 18. Office national park Brijuni is located on the main harbor square of Fažany (July and August daily 8: 00-22: 00, June and September daily 8: 00-20: 00; from October to April Monday-Saturday 8: 00-15: 00).
The office sells tickets for one day excursions on the most the big island and the delivery of travelers to hotels is organized. Fažana Tourism Office (Riva 2; June-August daily 8: 00-22: 00; May-September Monday-Friday 8: 00-15: 00) provides information, maps and brochures, and the Stefani Trade Agency (Zupni trg 3; from mid-June to mid-September daily 8: 30-11: 00) rents private rooms and apartments on the mainland. The Tito festival is held in Fažana.
This comic event is timed to May 25, that is, to the official birthday of the leader. The festival includes concerts of folk music, performances of brass bands and processions local residentsdressed up as pioneers. Tito in Istria is honored not so much for his participation in the creation of the Yugoslav state, as for the fact that he brought the peninsula out of power.
How to get to the Brijuni Islands
From May to mid-October there are about eight excursions from Fažana every day. In the rest of the months, with the exception of January, there is one per day. The guides are closed in January. The walk takes 4 hours. Prices depend on the season: in July and August - 180 kuna, in June and September - 170 kuna, in April, May and October - 150 kuna, and in February, March, November and December - 100 kuna. Tickets are sold at the Brijuni National Park office on the Fažana embankment. If you are staying in Istria, at a hotel for tourist groups, then for a trip to Brijuni you will pay about 250 HRK.
This amount includes the cost of excursion services, travel expenses, and sometimes the price of lunch. They also conduct boat excursions to Brijuni (a ticket costs about 200-250 kuna), however, as part of such a trip, the route of visiting the national park is reduced. If you want to stay on the islands, you should keep in mind that prices in local hotels are deliberately overpriced in order to maintain the aura of “exclusivity”. Neptun-Istra is a standard three-star hotel. Rooms with TV, minibar and bathroom. Hotel Karmen is slightly better, but in general it offers almost the same.
If you really want luxury, then rent one of the stylish antique villas. They can be booked through the National Park office in Fažana. The villas are located on the beach, in secluded areas on the south side of Veli Brijuni. Primorka (1200/8800 kuna per day) is designed for eight people, Dubravka (600/4400 kuna per day) - for four, and Lovorka (600/4400 kuna per day) - for five. The most aristocratic of these villas is Lovorka. In the period between the two wars, the Duke of Spoleto loved to relax and play polo here.
If you are staying on the island, it is convenient to get around by renting a golf cart (500 kuna / 5 hours) or a bicycle (100 kuna per day) from the sports center next to the Neptun-Istra hotel. North of the hotels is a 22-hole golf course. It is eco-friendly to minimize watering and pesticide treatments. Reindeer eat up the grass, so the lawn hardly needs to be mowed. You can pay for the use of the playground and rent equipment at the sports center. The island has café-restaurants Neptun-Istra and Karmen.
Veli Brijuni island in Croatia
A tourist boat from Fažana in fifteen minutes crosses the Gulf of Brionne and arrives at the Kupelweiser hotel complex on east coast Veli Brijuni. From there, a miniature train with a guide heads north to the safari park, which is located at the northern tip of the island. In this park, Tito settled exotic animals, which were presented to him by the leaders of other countries. The elephants Sonny and Lanka, donated by Indira Gandhi in 1975, are still happy to pose for photographers. You can also see zebras, antelopes and native longhorn cows (boskarin) from the hinterland.
The train then continues along the west coast of the island to White Villa and other official residences, including Villa Jadranka, where Queen Elizabeth II and Gina Lollobrigida were guests. The train stops at the southwestern corner of the island for passengers to explore the ruins of a Byzantine fortress. Its gloomy gray walls contrast sharply with the surrounding green paradise it was built to protect. The train then returns to the hotel complex, passing by the remains of a 1st century Roman villa in Veriga Bay.
At the end of the tour, before returning to the mainland, sightseers can visit several more locals located near hotel complex... The most important of these is the 15th century Gothic church, restored by Kupelweiser before the First World War and inaugurated by Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Nearby, in showroom, the exposition "Tito na Brijunima" ("Tito na Brijunima"; in July and August, daily 8: 00-20: 00; in June and September, daily 8: 00-19: 00; in May and October, daily 8: 00- 18:00; for tourists arriving on the excursion by boat, admission is free).
On the ground floor, there are stuffed animals donated to the Yugoslav leader by high-ranking foreign guests. Animals were stuffed after death. Particularly touching are the four seven-week-old giraffes that died of salmonellosis shortly after arriving from Africa. On the second floor, there is a wonderful exhibition of photographic documents that reveal Tito's personality from various angles. One photo shows the Yugoslavian leader talking with the fishermen Fažana, and the next one shows him exchanging jokes with his guest artists: Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Richard Burton played the role of Tito in the epic war film Sutjeska (1970). Pay attention to the funny photo of Tito riding Ho Chi Minh on a motor boat. For some reason, both leaders put on their vulgar panamas, and from the expression on the face of the Vietnamese leader it is clear that he likes what is happening much less than the marshal himself. Opposite the exhibition building, on the lawn, there is an aviary that serves as a "summer apartment" for one of Tito's favorite pets, the white parrot Koki. Koki still loves to repeat the banal phrases that his owner taught him. It is strange to think that the voice of the Yugoslav leader still lives in the beak of a feathered pet.
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Brijuni Islands located in the northern part Adriatic Sea, off the west coast. This is one of the most elite resorts , which is a picturesque archipelago of 14 islands of different shapes and sizes. It is separated from the mainland by the Fazana Strait and is located 6 km from the city.
Features:
In the last century, Brijuni had a reputation as an exclusive holiday destination, where crowned persons, influential statesmen and the richest people of the planet gathered. Among the visitors to the resort at one time there were such famous personalities as Nikita Khrushchev and Josip Broz Tito, who built a personal summer residence for receiving high-ranking guests. Now the status of Brijuni has undergone minor changes. Financially secure people still rest here, and prices for accommodation in a few hotels are close to exorbitant. The local infrastructure is adjusted in accordance with the social status of the guests. The hotels employs exclusively highly qualified personnel, and the service provision is extremely diverse. Almost all the tourism industry is concentrated on the main island of the archipelago called Bolshoy Briun. Its flat surface is covered with subtropical vegetation, and the air is saturated with the smells of pine and cedar trees, eucalyptus and rosemary. In addition to Bolshoi Briun, the archipelago has many other islands and coral reefs, and the largest land areas are also Maly Briun and Vanga. Since the fall of 1983, the Brijuni Islands have been declared a national park.
general information
The area of \u200b\u200bthe archipelago is just over 36 sq. km. There is no local population on the islands, but there are several luxury hotels and mansions for tourists. Time lags behind Moscow by 1 hour in summer and 2 in winter. Time zone UTC + 1 and UTC + 2 in summer time of the year. Official website www.brijuni.hr.
A brief excursion into history
According to archaeologists, the first settlements arose on the islands around 3000 BC and date back to the Bronze Age. At different times, these lands belonged to the Illyrians, Celts, Romans, Ostrogoths, Byzantines. Until the 19th century, stones were exclusively mined here for construction, and only in 1893, after the purchase of the archipelago by the steel magnate Paul Kupelwieser, the fate of Brijuni changed dramatically. The progressive entrepreneur decided to build a resort complex on the main island with hotels, villas and green lawns. Painstaking work on the improvement of the territory began. However, soon an epidemic of malaria intervened in the construction process, which was defeated only after the intervention of the famous doctor Robert Koch. As a token of gratitude, Kupelwieser ordered to erect a monument to the doctor, and he himself continued the modernization of Brijuni. Over time, transport links with the mainland were established here, walking paths were equipped, comfortable hotel buildings with swimming pools and gardens for walking were erected. Soon, the resort became well known in the upper circles and since then it has enjoyed an elite status.
Climate
The region has a mild, moderately humid climate. The average air temperature in the summer is +23 degrees. The heat is practically not felt due to the pleasant sea breeze blowing from the Adriatic. Unlike mainland Croatia, rainfall is not uncommon here from June to August, although the weather is generally pleasant and comfortable with an abundance of sunny days. The swimming season begins in Brijuni in May and lasts until October.
How to get there
The nearest settlement the archipelago is the city of Fažana, located on the mainland. A few kilometers away is international Airport ... To get to Brijuni, take a bus to the seaport of Fažana, and from there, during the day, about twice an hour, there are ferries to Bolshoy Brijun.
Transport
The most convenient way to get around the island is by bike or a special mini golf car. You can navigate between the islands using numerous yachts, boats and other water transport. Considering that the territory of the archipelago has the status of a reserve, they are extremely responsible for environmental issues, so traditional buses and cars are not provided here.
Beaches
The resort's best pebbled beach is called Minor and is located on Maliy Briun Island and is an excellent place for swimming and relaxing. sunbathing... It is equipped with sun loungers and parasols, and is also ideal for beach and water sports. Otherwise, the beaches of the archipelago have a rocky coastline, which is not very convenient for entering the water, although there are also wild, gently sloping sand and pebble areas.
sights
The main advantages of Brijuni are its flora and fauna. Over the years, people have brought animals here and planted rare plants. As a result, over time, both of them adapted to the local microclimate, becoming part of this unique natural edge... In total, about 600 species of various plants grow here, including groves of relict oak, strawberry tree, sequoia. Among the architectural structures, the summer estate of Josip Broz Tito on Bolshoy Briun stands out, as well as a number of well-preserved fragments of buildings from the Roman era, scattered throughout the archipelago. Not far from the central port of the resort, there are the churches of St. Herman and Rock. Next to Tito's estate there is a large-scale zoo, which is full of amazing natural landscapes. The underwater world of Brijuni is extremely rich and rich and diving enthusiasts have the opportunity to enjoy its beauty by diving in numerous bays.
Entertainment
All hotel buildings and villas rise along the coast of Bolshoy Briun and offer their guests a lot of entertainment. For fans aquatic species sports, there is a multifunctional center where, in addition to renting the necessary equipment, beginners can take lessons from professional instructors. There is also a golf club on the island with wonderful green lawns. There is a riding school.
Kitchen
Since the island is considered an elite holiday destination, all the traditional amenities for guests are present directly in hotels, so there are few restaurants and cafes in the resort. Among culinary products, the menu is dominated by seafood, meat and vegetable dishes, various exclusive delicacies and drinks, gastronomic products.
Shopping
Shopping, as such, is not provided at the resort; all souvenirs and related products can be purchased in hotels and in local souvenir shops.
Despite the fact that anyone can visit Brijuni for a moderate fee, only very wealthy people can afford to rest here, since one day of living on the main island is measured in several hundred, or even thousands of euros.
