The Town of Rovinj hosted the International Summer Salsa Festival this year too, for the fifth year in a row, which was organised again, along with a host of sponsors, by the Zagreb Los Mamberos Club, with Maistra and the Tourist Board as co-organisers.
The Association of “Batana House,” in cooperation with the Nautical Club “Maestral Ronhill,” staged the fourth regatta of vessels with the square and Latin sails and other traditional ships, which saw the participation of 31 historical vessels from Croatia, Slovenia and Italy, most so far.
Among thirty six finalists in 12 categories, the international jury announced the best ones during the second, and last, day of Photodays – photography festival.
The second Photodays Photography Festival is ongoing in Rovinj, the manifestation including national, professional and contestant participants of the Croatian photography community, with awards given to authors of the best achievements created during the past year, in several photographic categories.
Perhaps by far the most important event of this year’s 10th in a row International Free Diving Competition was the coming of one of the greatest world divers of all time, Umberto Pelizzaro, who is a multiple world champion in free diving.
30 May to 1 June 2009, the 10th edition of Rovinj Apnea Croazia will be held in Rovinj, organized by the Apnea Academy – Scuola di formazione e ricerca per l´apnea subaqua, and Mike Maric, 2004 world apnea champion and 2004, 2005 and 2006 Croatian apnea champion.
Together with its partners, the Tourist Board have for the third year in succession organised the one-day Festival of Rovinj Delicatessen.
A presentation of gastronomic and oenological delicacies of Rovinj and Istria’s hinterland, food and wine tasting (prosciutto, cheese, olive oil, wine, liqueurs, brandy, bread, baked goods, aromatic herbs, mushroom produce, pastries) and an extensive menu of Istria’s specialties on offer at the best restaurants in Rovinj.
Rovinj - Hotel EDEN - 23.5.2009. - from 14.00 to 19.00 h
We are inviting you to the relaxed atmosphere of the garden party on Hotel's Eden lawn. Try the very best of Istria's
wine & gastro offer with the soothing tunes of LeKap Jazz Quartet
The largest trans-Adriatic regatta “The Route of Coasters,” held for the first time in 1985, did not stop even during the Homeland War, nor when the cloud of Chernobyl wafted over the Adriatic. Skippers did not even mind snowflakes the size of a walnut which surprised sailboats in the middle of the Adriatic in May 1987.
The third and final day of the ‘Popolana’ was marked by the 5th Rovinj half marathon. At the starting line of this 22 kilometre race there were 139 runners from Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Hungary, USA, Moldavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This year's ‘Popolana’, the sports-humanitarian event with its spirit expressed in the motto ‘With Sport from Streets and Squares to Nature and Tourism’, was held in the name of a 99 km long ultra marathon, which was, in the company of Lenart Oblak and numerous friends, run by Mirjana Kmačić Pellizzer.
The third sports-recreational event organized by the City of Rovinj, Sports Union, Tourist Association and Maistra, the popular ‘Popolana’, attracted a large crowd.
The City of Rovinj, the traditional host of Easter concerts, welcomed the young Italian pianist Livio Minafra, the author of three jazz albums and the winner of the Top jazz 2008 prize that is granted to young talents by Musica Jazz magazine.
The town tourist board, in cooperation with Spacia Grota and Eugen Kumičić Vocational School, organized an outdoor Easter breakfast in Valdibora for the first time.
After the Rovinj Tourist Board employees distributed two thousand perennials and spring flowers to their fellow citizens on the first Saturday in April, they traditionally distributed fruit trees on Saturday before Easter Monday.
Easter Programme
Rovinj 2009
For the Easter holiday, there will be a programme organised in the city for citizens and guests as follows:
April 11, 2009 (Saturday)
10 AM – traditional distribution of 500 small trees of jujube, fig, raspberry,
blackberry, currant, and gooseberry to citizens of Rovinj in front of the
office of the Tourist Association of Rovinj within the environment action
“Istria - Clean As Can Be”
10 AM – entertainment programme with the “Eligio and Boris” duo in front of
hotel Adriatic
April 12, 2009 (Sunday)
EASTERN BREAKFAST
9:15 AM – 11:00 AM – at Valdibora in cooperation with Spacia “Grota,” “Eugen
Kumičić” vocational school and with entertainment
programme of “Batana” group
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM– at the Marshall Tito Square by hotel “Adriatic” with the
concert performance by “Istrian youth musical scene” with
the performance of romantic melodies (violin, piano, flute)
9 PM – St. Francis church – concert series “Gandusiana” Livio Minafra – piano solo: La Fiamma e il Cristallo (Italy);
piano
April 13,2009 (Monday)
9:30AM – 12:00 PM – entertainment programme with the “Eligio and Boris” duo
in front of hotel Adriatic
For the seventh year in a row, the Tourist Association of Rovinj, for the forthcoming Easter holiday, is encouraging its citizens to enrich and decorate their gardens and balconies by planting seasonal flowers and perennials that it gives out.
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