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The Zadar Archipelago is the most complex island landscape on the Dalmatian coast — a scatter of over 200 islands, islets, and reefs stretching north from Zadar along the Dalmatian coast, encompassing the Kornati National Park and the quieter, less visited islands of Dugi Otok, Ugljan, and Pašman. Zadar itself is a Roman city of genuine distinction, underrated by visitors who go straight to Split and Dubrovnik without stopping.
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Zadar's old town has a Roman forum, a 9th-century church, and a waterfront Sea Organ — an installation of underwater pipes that converts wave energy into music — that is genuinely extraordinary rather than merely quirky. The Kornati Islands, a national park of 89 bare limestone islands and reefs, are one of the most unusual sailing destinations in the Mediterranean. Dugi Otok's Telašćica Nature Park, at the southern tip of the island, has a saltwater lake connected to the sea and cliffs that drop 160 metres to the Adriatic below.
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Quando visitare
May through September for sailing and island life. The Kornati are best visited by private boat or organised sailing tour — there is no public ferry to the national park. Zadar works well year-round as a functioning city with a good airport and direct connections across Europe.
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Watch the sunset from Zadar's waterfront at the Sun Salutation installation — a 22-metre circle of solar panels that converts the day's sunlight into a light show after dark, designed by the same architect as the Sea Organ. Alfred Hitchcock called the Zadar sunset the most beautiful in the world in 1964. He was not wrong, and it has not changed.
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