If you want to experience a touch of Baranja, but you’re stuck in Zagreb, the city’s Flower square (Cvjetni trg) offers you a compromise.
Dodir baRAnJe (A Touch of Baranja), an outdoor photo exhibition that will remain open until the end of April, highlights 20 photos of beautiful Baranja.
”A picture says a thousand words, so this is how we decided to present the beauty of Baranja and motivate Zagreb’s citizens and their guests to visit the region located between the Danube and Drava rivers next to the border with Hungary to have a proper break,” says the website of the Baranja Tourist Board.
The Tourist Board, along with Tourist Boards of Draž and Bilje-Kopački Rit hosted the event.
Nenad Milić, Dubravko Franjin, Romulić&Stojčić Studio, Mario Đurkić, and Zvonimir Janković are the photographers whose work is being featured in the exhibition. Below every photo, there is a QR code that offers an explanation of the photo both in English and Croatian, and in the evening, the photos are illuminated by solar power collected during the day.
As written by the Explore Croatia site, Baranja is special for its display of multiculturalism of the people who live there and who have previously passed through the territory. Tradition and cultural heritage in the area have survived the challenges of time, and nowhere is that more visible than in Baranja’s cuisine.
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”Baranja continues to remain a special destination which will tell the traveller various stories about tradition, family, life secrets, love, death, wines, hot peppers, specific fishing, weddings…“, explains the Explore Croatia site.
Baranja also offers the richness of nature as it is surrounded by rivers and the Kopački Rit swamp and bird reserve that is home to a wide and impressive variety of animals and plants, representing a real treat for the dedicated traveller.
When in Baranja, make sure to try the delicious Fiš Paprikaš, Baranja’s own local Kulen recipe, and carp prepared in a delicious way only Baranja knows how to do.
Learn more about Croatia’s food on our TC page.
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