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Croatia

Capital: Zagreb

  • Croatia has over 1,000 islands and islets along the Adriatic, and 48 of them are permanently inhabited.
  • Plitvice Lakes National Park has 16 lakes arranged in cascades, linked by waterfalls and natural stone dams.
  • Emperor Diocletian had his palace built in Split between about 293 and 305 CE, and it now forms about half of the old town.
  • Zadar's Sea Organ, opened in 2005, uses waves to push air through pipes hidden under marble steps, making sound.
  • Dubrovnik's city walls run about 1,940 metres around most of the old town, with 17 towers and several forts.

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