We have some interesting and fun facts about Croatia you might not know.
- Hum in Croatia is the world’s smallest town.
- The dog breed Dalmatian can be traced back to Croatia and the Dalmatia region.
- The Walls of Ston are the longest preserved fortification system in the world after the Great Wall of China.
- Zadar has the world’s first pipe organ played by the sea.
- Zadar is well known for its amazing sunsets which Alfred Hitchcock described as the most beautiful in the world.
- The Roman amphitheater in Pula is the 6th largest amphitheatre in the world and the only one with all 3 rows preserved.
- The island of Hvar off the Dalmatian coast is the island with the most hours of sunshine in Europe – more than 2,800 hours a year.
- Red Lake near the city of Imotski, Croatia, is the deepest sinkhole in Europe, 3rd the largest in the world.
- The richest collection of remains of Neanderthals in the world was discovered in Krapina in central Croatia.
- The highest mountain in Croatia is the Dinara peak at 1,831 metres.
- In Croatia there are so many dialects that people can’t understand each other. Despite some arguing that Croatian isn’t even a language in its own right, it has a dizzying number of dialects which change from town to town. They change so much, in fact, that Croatians from a big city like Dubrovnik may have serious trouble understanding Croatians from, say a small town in Istria.
- A large amount of the famous TV series Game of Thrones was filmed in Croatia.
- Kuna, the Croatian currency, is named after a ferret like little animal called the marten.
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