Quiet, authentic places away from tourist trails.
Villages
- Varaždin — Baroque capital, Špancirfest festival
- Mljet — National park with lakes and a monastery
- Rab — Four bell towers on the Adriatic
- Kopački Rit — Nature Park — Slavonian Amazon
- Ston — Dubrovnik-like walls in miniature, oysters
- Cres — Island of griffon vultures and esoteric silence
- Samobor — Little town with the country’s best kremšnita cake
- Umag — ATP tennis, active tourism, close to Slovenia
- Poreč — Euphrasian Basilica (UNESCO) and family resort
- Primošten — Peninsula with vineyards and stone houses