riveradventure | Visit Karlovac County - Part 13

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Quad – Paintball – Archery

Quad – Paintball – Archery

Aug 27, 2017 | |

Paintball has many fans in Karlovac County with excellent „war fields“ for this amazing group game or team building, relaxing from physical and mental tension. In Novak Lipnicki by Ribnik, besides polygon for paintball with nature hideouts, to guests are on disposition playgrounds for little football, basketball, badminton, volleyball, hanging bowling and playground for children. Paintball polygons near Slunj have school for paintball, in case of bad weather „war“ can be played in the hall. Slunj surroundings call for bicycle rides on bicycle tracks, Nordic walking and driving a quad vehicle.

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Horseback riding

Horseback riding

Aug 27, 2017 | |

Horseback riding in horse club „Karlovac“ is taking place in green oasis beside the river Korana. Club performs horseback riding therapy for persons with diminished body and / or mentally abilities. HC „Fany“ in Vukmanic Cerovec promotes horseback riding as a sport and returning to nature and also promotes healthy life. You can also try riding in a carriage and try some delicious home made food. Learn how to horseback ride is possible in Jelov Klanac ranch, not far away from Rakovica, managed by Iris Croatica and HC „Equs croaticus“.

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The economy and transport

The economy and transport

Aug 26, 2017 | |

In the 18th and first half of the 19th century, Karlovac was the port on the Danube waterway closest to the Adriatic Sea and the largest grain trading and traffic centre in Croatia. Kupa Quay (whose remnants are still visible) was congested with boats, grain warehouses and other goods. Steam boats also sailed the Kupa, the first one carrying wheat arrived into Karlovac from Sisak in 1862 (by the Sava River to Sisak in 1844), a decade before the first Croatian steamboat on the Adriatic Sea.

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Arhitecture and urbanism

Arhitecture and urbanism

Aug 26, 2017 | |

The first town draft of Karlovac preserves the date when the construction of Karlovac began, with the date being 13th July 1579, and supported by evidence from the first building plans. It was built as a six-pointed star Renaissance fortress with a central square and regular grid of streets to defend against the Ottomans. Besides Karlovac, in the late Renaissance and Baroque, only a few cities was similarly built in Europe: Nové Zámky in Slovakia, Palmanova in Italy, Naarden in Netherlands, Neuf Breisach in France.

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