THURSDAY / 15 JUNE / 2017 | YEAR 2 | ISSUE 03 Powered by FREE COPY MALI LOŠINJ Find out the secret of Apoxyomenos recommended by locals INSIDERS' TIPS FOR RESTAURANTS, MUSEUMS, BEACHES, FOODS, WINES... GORAN ŠEBELIĆ/HANZA MEDIA discover your story at croatia.hr Don’t fill your life with days, fill your days with life. photo by ivo biočina CONTENTS ISSUE 02 l YEAR 2 l THURSDAY / 15 JUNE / 2017 IMPRESSUM 4 PUBLISHER: HANZA MEDIA d.o.o. Koranska 2, Zagreb 14 OIB: 791517545745 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Goran Ogurlić [email protected] EDITOR: Edi Jurković 6 CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Borna Križančić event of the week explore 14-15 WINE & DINE [email protected] Try best fine food restaurants in GRAPHICS EDITORS: 04 SLURP! VOL1 PARTY AND 10-11 TOP 5 SIGHTS TO VISIT Boris Igrec Istria & Kvarner CASANOVAFEST Amphitheatre in Pula, TRANSLATION: 16-17 VRBNIK AND ŽLAHTINA Slurp! brings together the most Eurphrasiana in Poreč, Brijuni Romana Pezić [email protected] renowned local and regional National Park, Apoxyomenos in 18-19 BEST OLIVE OIL electronic music artists, together Lošinj, and Torpedo in Rijeka MARKETING: with well-known foreign guests, Try autochthonous Istrian oil Telephone: 01/6173 870 varieties [email protected] performing on several colourful culture stages in Fort Punta Christo, a BOARD OF DIRECTORS: unique festival location on a small 12-13 MUSEUMS OF ISTRIA AND ATTRACTION Marko SMETIŠKO (chairman) peninsula of the same name near KVARNER Ana HANŽEKOVIĆ (vice Štinjan and Pula, opposite the one 20-21 ISTRIA FROM A-Z chairman) of the most beautiful national park GASTRO Little Istria alphabet SUPERVISORY BOARD: in Croatia, National park of Brijuni Gvozden Srećko FLEGO 22-23 PARENZANA BIKE Maja ŠILHARD 06 EVENTS: THIS WEEK'S Krešimir ĆOSIĆ HOT LIST 24 EXPLORE RIJEKA Marijana RAGUŽ Take the opportunity to spend 26-27 APOXYOMENOS ADVISORY BOARD: the summer solstice, the shortest Damir BORAS, Petar MILADIN, night occurring between 21 and Trip ideas Davor MAJETIĆ 22 June, staying awake. There DIRECTOR OF PUBLISHING: Tomislav WRUSS are numerous places in Istria and 28 EXPLORE KVARNER Kvarner without light pollution, PHOTOGRAPHY allowing naked-eye stargazing A region of diversity and tradition CROPIX FOTO SERVIS: tel. 01/610 3117, 01/610 3090, 8-9 MAIN ATTRACTIONS IN fax: 01/610 3033 ISTRIA AND KVARNER Shopping web: www.cropix.hr 18 e-mail: [email protected] Map and basic informations 30 10 THINGS TO TAKE HOME PRINT SLOBODNA DALMACIJA d.d. 21204 Dugopolje, Dugopoljska 11 26 20 THURSDAY / 15 JUNE / 2017 Istria&KvarnerTIMES 3 EVENT OF THE WEEK DON'T MISS: 1 SLURP! VOL1 PARTY IN PULA 2 CASANOVA FEST IN VRSAR 3 THE DINOSAUR EXHIBITION IN RIJEKA Slurp! Vol1 Party Pula Fort Punta Christo Slurp! brings together the most renowned local and regional electronic music artists, together with well-known foreign guests, performing on several colourful stages in Fort Punta Christo, a unique festival location on a small peninsula of the same name near Štinjan and Pula, opposite the National Park of Brijuni. AUTHOR EDI JURKOVIĆ Slurp! Festival taking 8place during the sum- mer season includes four individual Slurp! events, one held every month, i.e. on June 17, July 15, August 12 and September 23. The DANIJELA PERAČIĆ/HANZA MEDIA events feature numerous domestic and foreign pro- lowing years he became fa- His 'Above Humans' and ducers, DJs, musicians and mous for his dubstep and tip! 'Mantra' released by record groups. Other Slurp! events drum'n'bass sets played labels Get Physical Mu- such as Slurp! Halloween in under alias L Jay. A decade Slurp! is organized sic and Save Us Records Zerostrasse tunnels in Pula later, he was recognized as in June, July, August show the high quality of are also held in the course of a producer focused on elec- and September, with his sound and music pro- the year. tronic music. performances of duction. These releases, The first Slurp! Vol.1 this numerous DJs, as well as some of his oth- year will be held on June 17 musicians and er recordings and remixes, and will bring together the groups ended up in sets played in most prominent local and Bolier Room, BBC Radio, regional electronic music Burning Man Festival, with artists and their renowned the support from DJ Har- foreign guests on several col- vey, Hernan Cattane, Lu- ourful stages of Fort Punta cian, Dubfire, Jamie Jones, Christo. A young producer M.A.N.D.Y., Noir, Dave Sea- and a DJ from Pula, Andrea man and others. Ljekaj, tops the list of per- In addition to Andrea, other formers. artists such as BEATRISS - Andrea made his first steps warm up!, MO 'FUNK & in deejaying in his early ASTA NOVA, XXL and Ar- teens in the premises of the sen Pavešić, will make sure Seasplash group. In the fol- DANIJELA PERAČIĆ/HANZA MEDIA the party never stops. 4 Istria&KvarnerTIMES THURSDAY / 15 JUNE / 2017 1 SLURP! VOL1 PARTY IN PULA 2 CASANOVA FEST IN VRSAR 3 THE DINOSAUR EXHIBITION IN RIJEKA Basic info Casanovafest - festival of love in Vrsar Casanovafest, a festi- rical performances, profes- Slurp! Vol1 Party SLURP! VOL1 PARTY 8val of love and eroti- sional lectures, gastronom- 17 JUNE 2017 cism, celebrates the his- ic delights, film screenings ŠTINJAN (PULA), FORT torical connection between of erotic films and music PUNTA CHRISTO Casanova and Vrsar, a town events. FROM 11PM where the famous seducer Discover romance, love, Pula Fort Punta Christo ELECTRONIC MUSIC EVENT stayed on two occasions, in and eroticism through dif- TICKETS: HRK 40 BEFORE 1743 and 1744. As he wrote ferent historic periods and MIDNIGHT/HRK 50 AFTER in his extensive memoirs, GORAN ŠEBELIĆ/HANZA MEDIA visit the Roman hedonistic MIDNIGHT he had fond memories of corner. Learn about love WWW.SLURPFESTIVAL.COM this Istrian town and its throughout history, let a good food, good wine and fortune-teller solve your beautiful women. Giaco- love problems, and, in the mo Casanova, the most fa- meantime, en- mous lover of all time, trav- elled throughout Europe, but was particularly fond of Vrsar. On the first day of his arrival to this small town, a priest helped him by offer- ing a place of refuge, which CASANOVAFEST the visitors will be able to THE FESTIVAL OF LOVE AND see. EROTICISM For several years in a row, 16 JUNE 2017 joy the music the festival has been explor- 07.30PM CITY GATE STREET and dance joined togeth- ing the recurring theme of - OPENING OF CASANOVA’S er in full harmony. We be- romantic relationships and PLACE OF REFUGE gin with the ancient times reflections on such rela- 17 JUNE 2017, 08PM - 11.30PM when people enjoyed love tionships through different DEGRASSI SQUARE - LOVE very much. After that, we DANIJELA PERAČIĆ/HANZA MEDIA artistic spheres - literary THROUGHOUT HISTORY dance the tango to remind did you know? evenings, exhibitions, theat- FREE ENTRY you of what love is today. Fort Punta Christo was built in mid-19th century on the peninsula of the same name near Štinjan, at the entrance to the Bay of Pula and opposite the National Park of Brijuni. It was the largest and strongest coastal fortress of the imperial and royal fortress artillery MEDIA KONJEVIĆ/HANZA BRUNO of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and it protected the auxiliary anchorage of the Austro-Hungarian fleet. The fort which extended over more than ten thousand square Models of giant dinosaurs in Rijeka metres was abandoned after World War II. The fortress The Natural History More than 20 thousand visi- the dinosaur exhibition in surrounded by a deep moat 8Museum in Rijeka has tors, twice as many of which Rijeka. See the largest her- has three entrances leading put on a large exhibition of children as adults, have seen bivore, the Argentinosaur- to the fort. Inside the fort dinosaurs of the Southern us, which weighed as many there are three courtyards hemisphere. The exhibition as 100 tons and was 40 me- from which you can access the called "Giants of Patagonia" GIANTS OF PATAGONIA tres long, and the largest underground areas. includes replicas of dinosaur EXHIBITION OF MODELS OF carnivore who ever walked A number of social, cultural GIANT DINOSAURS IN RIJEKA and entertaining programmes, skeletons made according on Earth. It is called Gi- concerts, festivals, exhibitions, to authentic and complete UNTIL 26 JUNE 2017 ganotosaurs carolinii, and programmes for children and fossil models found in Pa- RIJEKA, DELTA, FORMER it is displayed in full size at young people, workshops, tagonia, as well as full-size WAREHOUSE OF EXPORTDRVO, the exhibition. It was about shows and performances are models of giant dinosaurs GROBNIČKA RIVA B.B. 15 metres long, weighed 8 held in the fort during the made according to the lat- MONDAY – SUNDAY: 9AM – tons and reached a height summer. est scientific knowledge. 9PM, TICKETS: HRK 40 – 60 of about 5 metres. THURSDAY / 15 JUNE / 2017 Istria&KvarnerTIMES 5 MAIN EVENTS Take the opportunity to spend the summer solstice, the shortest night occurring This week’s between 21 and 22 June, staying awake. There are numerous places in Istria and Kvarner without light pollution, allowing naked- HOT list eye stargazing. THE SUMMER SOLSTICE FESTIVAL IN VIŠNJAN This year AstroFest, the summer 8solstice festival, will be held again in Tićan Observatory next to Višnjan, in the evening of 21 to 22 June. The festival attracting astrono- my enthusiasts will TEA CIMAŠ/HANZA MEDIA feature the mystical history of astrono- of the ancient peoples of the European world meets the surreal, fairies, elves, my, and ethno and continent. At the shortest night of the and supernatural creatures visit the modern music and ASTROFEST year, visitors to the festival go back to Earth, bringing an air of mystery and rhythms.