More features:

• Birdwatching Croatia

  Birdwatching in Croatia is only recently gaining in popularity, partly due to the interest shown by visitors from other European countries, notably Great Britain....

• Glagolitic

  Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries Senj was a major centre of literature written in Glagolitic, the script that was used by a significant section of the Croatian church until its gradual replacement by the Latin....

• History

  5th Century BC Illyrian tribes build the settlement of Senia, just inland from today’s Senj.4th Century BC Senj is mentioned for the first time in Greek documents, under the name Attienities....

• Senj gastronomy

  The cuisine of the Senj region is, rather ike the region itself, a combination of Mediterranean and highland influences....

• Bura

  If you ask the average Croat what first springs to mind when the name Senj is mentioned, then they’ll probably say the Bura....

• Red Zora

  Of all the fictional characters associated with Senj, few enjoy such widespread popularity as Red Zora, the flame-haired teenage heroine created by German writer Kurt Held (1897-1959)....

• Uskoks

  Few people symbolize Croatia’s historical struggles so potently as the Uskoks, the valiant, resourceful and fiercely proud frontier folk who formed a large part of Senj’s population in the sixteenth century....