Official film of the Croatian National Tourist Board "Ode to Joy" - Croatia - the new tourism star of the European Union, won a prestigious travel industry's 'Oscars' award 'Das goldene Stadttot' at the International Tourism Film Festival held on 8 March 2012. With its impressive visualization, the film highlights Croatian rich cultural, historical and natural heritage and many Croatian beauties through inspiring music narrative led by Croatian cellist star Ana Rucner. Enjoy!

In Croatia, where the Mediterranean, the mountains and the Pannonian plains come together in a unique harmony of natural beauty, within just a little more than a hundred kilometres, you can come across excitingly different landscapes.

The Adriatic, with one of the most indented coastlines in Europe with its 1,185 islands and islets, of which only 66 are inhabited, is undoubtedly the most popular tourist destination. Continental Croatia, however, also abounds in beauty: it is a land of forests, rivers rich in fish, swift mountain streams and deep gorges of Gorski Kotar, and the magnificent Plitvice Lakes in Lika. It is a land of golden wheat fields, oak woods and wide rivers of Slavonia and Baranja, a land of quaint little villages, romantic castles and manors, and picturesque rolling hills and vineyards of the Croatian Zagorje.