The Town of Rovinj Tourist Board treated home folk and guests with a celebratory cake and 30-metre long apple strudel. The reason for the treat was a repeated record year, during which the Town of St Euphemia realised three million stays for the second time, thereby becoming once again the most visited tourist destination in the Adriatic.
Rovinj holds the Croatian record for most overnights stays
On October 7 2011 Rovinj saw its 3 millionth overnight stay
After 25 years (since 1986) Rovinj again reached a record-breaking 3 million overnight stays and, for the second consecutive year, regained leadership position in Croatia.
Compared to the same period last year and 347,716 more stays this is a 13 percent increase. Rovinj recorded a total of 434,167 arrivals, i.e. 56,096 or 16 percent more compared to 2010
Despite the fact the Rovinj Night has been, for almost four full decades now, a night not to be missed – the night written in gold into the calendar of summer events – the last one proved, by its selection of guests and the programme concept, to be beyond itself.
The last on the list of this year’s Fishing Tradition Evenings, organised by the Tourist Board in cooperation with members of the association the Batana House, was characterised by great Dalmatian tunes and the launch of the newly reconstructed indigenous batana boat – the Scurleina – into the sea.
On the isle of Maškin, connected to the Red Island (Crveni otok) by a stone overpass, just off Rovinj, the music and stage manifestation of “Ronald Braus and Guests” took place this year for the eleventh time. It is organised during Assumption Day by the Town Tourist Board, the hotel and catering company “Maistra” and the Town of Rovinj.
Na otočiću Maškin, koji je kamenom prevlakom spojen sa Crvenim otokom, smještenim nadomak Rovinja, ove se godine po jedanaesti put za redom održala glazbeno- scenska manifestacija "Ronald Braus i gosti", a koju za blagdan Vele Gospe organizira Turistička zajednica grada, hotelijersko-ugostiteljska kuća "Maistra" i grad Rovinj.
During the night from the 12th to 13th of August, thanks to employees of the Town Tourist Board, Rovinj was the most romantic destination in the Adriatic. That is, for the fifth year in a row the tourist office organised St Lawrence Night, celebrating shooting stars that can be seen best on the sky precisely during this night. They also achieved this particular manifestation is the shiniest pearl of the tourist offer.
Young expatriates, members of this year’s Eco Heritage Task Force organised by the Croatian Heritage Foundation, stayed in Rovinj for the past three weeks, and were welcomed by the Town Tourist Board. And during the few weeks of their stay they were not idle, but – day in and out – actively participated in making the town a better place – they did everything from painting fences along the suburbia settlements, decorating the yard of the Hope Home targeted at children who had been hurt by mines that is located in the perimeter of the Rovinj hospital, to cleaning Monkodonja, the old, reconstructed Istrian ruins just in the vicinity of Rovinj.
Within the Rovinj Summer Festival, mezzo-soprano and Festival art director, Katja Markotić, held a concert dedicated to anniversaries of musical greats Franz Liszt (100 years since death) and Gustav Mahler (200 years since birth). Accompanied by the pianist Mia Elezović, the same concert was premiered this spring in the Mimara Museum.
Within the organisation of this year’s concert tour by UNICEF, seventy-eight young members of the AJG Bigband from German Münster made Rovinj folk dance, as well as their numerous guests gathered in the central town square.
02.08.2011, Trg M. Tita, 19:00 Arnold Janssen Gymnasiums Bigband, UNICEF tour
In the church of St Francis, and as part of Rovinj Summer Festival, a concert was given by the Vogl String Trio, composed of Iva Nikolova playing the violin, Elisaveta Staneva on the viola and Bernhard Vogl on the cello.
During the final evening of the Sete Sòis Sete Luas Festival, along with the domestic and ever attractive Gustafi, who once again thrilled the audience, making it dance and sing aloud all of their hits, members of the Le Voix du 7Sois band performed, an ensemble comprised of prestigious musicians from the Mediterranean.
The second evening of the Sete Sòis Sete Luas Festival was marked by the Esta band, one of the oldest multiethnic groups in Israel, and their mystical musical journey, in search f the rhythms of the ancestors of Israel, stemming from Bulgaria, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
The nineteenth year of the Sete Sòis Sete Luas Festival, i.e. its fourth occurrence in Rovinj in a row, brought a host of good music. During the first evening, the open space of the town Square saw two bands presenting themselves to Rovinj folk and their guests – the Christian ethno group Šćinka and the star of the evening – the Basque group Korrontzi.
As part of the Avant-garde Jazz Festival, ex-Rovinj Tobacco Factory featured a concert by George Benson, one of the best jazz guitar players and an icon of pop and R&B music.
Benson opened the concert evening with the composition “Lady”, only to play some thirty tunes during the two hours, among which “Give me the night”, “Breezin’”, “Turn Your Love Around”, “This Masquerade”, and ending the performance with the fantastic hit “On Broadway”.
As part of the BaRoMus baroque music festival, the Franciscan monastery featured a concert by the Italian ensemble La Terza Praticca, comprised of Max de Aloe, playing the harmonica, Marlise Goidanich on the baroque cello, Nicola Stranieri playing percussion and Massimiliano Toni on the harpsichord.
Employees of the international archaeological team gathered by the International Underwater Archaeology Centre in Zadar and lead by archaeologist Luka Bekić, the Croatian Restoration Institute, Bayerischen Gesellschalf für Unterwasserarchäologie and the Rovinj Heritage Museum, having systematically worked for three years at the archaeological location of the Veštar Bay, their findings saw the light of day in the form of an exhibition.
Fishing evenings are proof that Rovinj folk are indeed aware of the beauty and attractiveness of the region they live in. During these manifestations, the gastronomic offer and the entertainment programme set along the town quay evoke memories of Rovinj from old postcards and of the time when fishermen were principal bread winners, with the grilled anchovy as the queen of Adriatic and Mediterranean cuisine. It is exactly the Fishing Tradition Evenings that, year in and out, stand out from other manifestations with their richness and diversity of programme – something one can but applaud to.
In Maistra’s Eden Hotel, the night before yesterday Gary Burton performed together with the musicians of the New Gary Burton Quartet, Mr Burton being a winner of several Grammys and the musician who popularised the duet format in jazz and promoted the four sticks playing style.
In cooperation with the Zagreb Contemporary Art Museum, the Adris Gallery opened the retrospective exhibition of paintings by Bruno Mascarelli, or – aptly put by the foreword to the exhibition catalogue by the prominent art historian Igor Zidić – “the Bruno of this and transcendent world”.
Town squares, hotels, halls and entertainment venues in Rovinj have been occupied these days by salsa dancers, coming from all over the globe to the seventh International Summer Salsa Festival, which year in and out keeps attracting ever increasing numbers of devotees to the town of St Euphemia.
The visitors to Rovinj on land simultaneously having the opportunity to enjoy the photographs of Photodays from the mega-billboards placed along the town quay, they were, during the past weekend, witness to an unusual spectacle on the sea – and none less attractive either – the regatta of traditional vessels with mast and Latin sails, organised by members of the eco-museum “The Batana House” and the sailing club “Maestral- Ronhill”.
Na natječaj koji se svake godine raspisuje u sklopu fotografskog festivala Rovinj Photodays stiglo je sedam tisuća fotografija u jedanaest službenih kategorija.
The Dr Lonnie Smith Trio, led by the recognised organist and pianist, also dubbed the grandfather of acid jazz, had his first performance in Croatia in Rovinj, as part of the Avant-garde Jazz Festival.
The fourth-in-a-row Croatian photography festival, the Rovinj Photodays, gathered about 350 participants from the whole region and announced as many as fifteen photographic exhibitions the authors of which are world famous photographers.
Israeli saxophone and clarinet player with a New York address, Anat Cohen, thrilled jazz buffs and visitors to Gandusio, by her performance at the Avant-garde Jazz Festival. This multi-instrumentalist and one of the best clarinet players in the world, also the winner of several prestigious prizes and awards, came to Rovinj accompanied by her quartet – the pianist Jason Lindner, drummer Daniel Freedman and bassist Joe Martin.
The third and last day of Popolana was all about the great and tasty culinary event. The seventh in a row half-marathon and the recreational street race attracted a record number of participants from Slovenia, Italy, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria, Hungary, Germany and Croatia.
The three-day sports manifestation of Popolana, held under the patronage of the Town, the Town Tourist Board and the hotel company Maistra and organised by the Association of Sports of the Town of Rovinj, this year attracted over 1,700 athletes and recreationists and some 300 volunteers.
Along with several sales stalls, the sound of the Marching Band and majorettes, laughter and play of those youngest in Rovinj, the Marshal Tito Square saw the opening of the fifth in a row sports and entertainment manifestation "Populana".
Traditionally, the employees of the Tourist Board of the Town of Rovinj this year too gave flowers to their fellow citizens, as part of the ecological campaign “Let My Istria Shine” and the project “I Love Croatia”.
Director of the Tourist Board, Odeta Sapač, pointed out the Board shall organise free tours for tourists this year, weekly, in Croatian, Italian, English and German, while on occasion guided cycle tours will also be organised.
12.02.2011. 20:00 MMC Valentine's Day Concert Music
Performed by: Vladimir Nazor Music school
HKD Franjo Glavinić
Klapa Rovinj
V.I.P. accoustic feat. Eligio Bosazzi
Dream Project Acoustic accompanied by Kristian Terzić on the piano & All Stars Project
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