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Dalmatia is Croatia's southernmost and most widely renowned historical region, a region of sun, warm sea, verdant vegetation, olives, vineyards, fish, song, and quaintly scenic villages with stone-built houses - in a nutshell, the true and unspoilt Mediterranean. And this is how it is experienced by its many, many visitors, and described by any number of world tourist guides: “Dalmatia - the Mediterranean as it once was”.

Although Dalmatia's main tourist destinations are located in the northern part, its true heart lies in the centre area around Split, Dalmatia's largest city. This is where there are a number of rivieras with famous beaches and where rugged mountains rise close to the shores. The islands of Central Dalmatia are scattered like pearls in the open sea.

Along the way to the heartland, the area of Northern Dalmatia, rich in natural sights, offers in addition to three national parks (Krka, Kornati and Paklenica) another quite special gem - Lake Vransko Nature Park . This, the largest lake in Croatia located at the seaside, is noted for its extreme richness of bird life and fish.

Despite its numerous beautiful landscapes and attractive beaches the first significant protected area in Central Dalmatia is situated on its south coast - Biokovo Nature Park, earmarked to become a national park some time in the not too distant future. Like hardly anywhere else in Europe, 1500 metre-high peaks with steep cliffs soaring from so near the sea are found here. Beneath the rugged foothills of the Biokovo Mountain is a 50 km-long belt of beaches, pine woods, olive groves and vineyards known as the Makarska Riviera, the most important tourist resort in Dalmatia’s heartland.

As with Ubka in the north, Biokovo, to the south of the Croatian coast, provides welcome freshness to the coastal area during the heat of summer. And then, a return to the tame Makarska Riviera and its beaches bordered by a crystal-clear, azure sea, replete with sumptuous flora.