Active tourism Hvar

Active tourism is a temporary travel and stay, which is the main motive for recreation, outside his residence. Because of the need to participate in physical activities, visits and desires for watching various sporting events or any active or passive involvement in sporting activities on a personal level or the organized tourist destination for tourists prepare a variety of sports and recreational offerings. Thus, the capacity of accommodations are sports fields, gyms, fitness gym and other sports and recreational facilities are increasingly under the control of professional trainers. For lovers of active tourism prepared various adventure specialties such as rafting, kayaking, scuba diving, paragliding, climbing the cliffs of mountains, diving the depths of the sea, the wild nature cycling, caving, air tourism and other ordinary and unusual sports. The nature of man's movement, and accelerated pace of life, stress and more sitting and not moving during the work, on vacation people make up sport.

The city of Hvar is situated on the west coast of the homonymous island, in a picturesque bay. The position on the south, isolated part of the world, with more than 2700 sunny hours a year, procured it the title of the sunniest town in Croatia.

The town received its name from the Greek name for Hvar - Pharos. It is located where once stood the Stari Grad (old city) of which take role of the main town on the island in the XIII century. In the Medieval time the town of Hvar was an important harbour that gives the protection to many ships and boats during the storm.

The town of Hvar is a hidden historic jewel that charms with its sea promenade, the seven century old town walls and fort and the largest square in Dalmatia. Here is situated the oldest theatre in Europe open in the 1612.

The Mediterranean nature, cultural and historical heritage and the kind habitants are what give to Hvar a special charm.

The city is a tourist centre of the island and one of the...