In 1474, Bishop Nicholas Modruški was the first Croat who published a book (“A Speech for Peter Rijarija” in Latin). In possibly the first Croatian printing office (1482-1484), in Modruš the first book in the Croatian language and the Glagolitic alphabet, “The Missal according to the Law of Roman Court” (28 years after Gutenberg’s “Bible”) was printed in 1483.
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The festival Karlovac Beer Days is the biggest beer event in Croatia. In late summer, over a period of 10 days it is visited by over 150,000 beer enthusiasts. On the initiative of Karlovac Brewery, it has been held since 1984 at the central square, and since 2000 in the area of the Korana Sports Fishing Centre. The solemn procession announces the event throughout the city streets, led by a carriage carrying beer barrels.
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Parish Modruš has been mentioned since 1163. It became the centre of the diocese in 1460, at the height of ecclesiastical, cultural and political power. In 1486, Bernardin Frankopan issued the Modruš Feudal Law, one of the most important historical documents in Croatia in the Glagolitic script. As assumed by some historians, the first Croatian and South Slavic incunabula Missal was printed in Modruš in 1483.
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Brothers Mirko and Stjepan Seljan from Karlovac were the leading Croats researchers of unfamiliar places. In the period from 1899 until 1913 when Mirko died under mysterious circumstances in Peru, they had been leading a scientific expedition in Ethiopia (in particular around the areas of Lakes Rudolf and Stefania) and South America (Brazil, Uruguay, Peru …). Stephen then settled down in the Brazilian town of Ouro Preto, where he died in 1936. The Seljans and conducted a number of geomorphologic, geological, mineralogical, hydrological, climatological, and ethnographic research.
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The fortified Town of Ozalj sitting on a cliff above the Kupa River is one of the most picturesque places in Croatia. Archaeological findings testify of the settlement long before 1244, when the name of the town was first recorded. In the mid-17th century, it was the unofficial capital of Croatia; the seat of ban Peter Zrinski, and it was the Ozalj literary-linguistic centre. Today, there is a Heritage Museum with priceless archaeological, cultural, historical, sacred and ethnographic collections. As a whole building complex, the city is marked as a single complex by the old Romanesque tower (Babonić Tower), bulwark with semi-towers, a Gothic-Renaissance palace, which was built in the 16th century by Ban Nikola Zrinski (one of the largest Croatian heroes, killed in battle at Siget in 1566) and it also has spacious baroque wings.
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