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"We never recovered from the war, neither has this place. This is Croatia, which many do not want to see"
British Telegraph published a story of a reader about "The Croatia they don’t show you in the tour brochures", and the author f the article was in Rovinj and he said for it that it masks the dark history of the state visitors of this city know little about.
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The text states that the author of the article Josh Jones won a prize trip to Rovinj and bus tour of the rest of the Croatia.
- A red hue glistened off the Adriatic as the sun crept above the horizon. Walking along Rovinj’s cobbled streets, through the intricate network of alleys and past the locals setting up their souvenir stalls, I was eventually out of the old town and on my way to the bus station. By the time I arrived, the sun had risen behind the town’s church tower, casting an orange backdrop behind the pastel-colored buildings and the red-tiled roofs. We were going away from Rovinj to our next destination.
He stated in the article that Croatia, because of its beauty, has become popular lately, but few know what the horrors and suffering the cities endured , including Rovinj. As the bus moved away, he noticed the villages changing on their way to Plitvice, they are becoming smaller and less beautiful. Because the bus drove slowly due to the traffic, Josh observed the environment.
- The place looked trapped in the Nineties. The concrete of the grey houses was crumbling away – a stark contrast to Rovinj’s patchwork of colourful structures. Many of the houses on one street were peppered with bullet holes. Turning a corner, I saw the carcass of a rusting tank on a grass verge. A brutal reminder of Croatia’s past, the tank was disintegrating, like the town in which it lay - he said.
"Tourists never come here" said a local that appeared there. "We never recovered from the war, neither has this place. This is Croatia, which many do not want to see", said a man with sadness in his voice.
- I wondered how many tourists, stretched idly on their sunbeds in Rovinj, even knew of this place. I realized that if the bus delivering me to another of Croatia’s tourist honeypots hadn’t passed through the town, then I wouldn’t have known either. It was a far cry from the Croatia we see on the idyllic Adriatic - Josh described his experience.
At the end he arrived to Plitvice, the "part of Croatia people like to see" and the "part from holiday brochures and postcards". "But it involved a trip through the country’s forgotten past", concluded this tourist in his travelogue.
You can read the original article HERE.