Meeting in Estonia - Introduce Croatia

1. Croatian Erasmus
Team
Inspiring studies and future
career
Estonia, May, 2015

3.  Republic of Croatia/ Republika
Hrvatska
 Capital City: Zagreb
 Population: 4.3 million
 Official Language: Croatian
 President: Kolinda Grabar- Kitarović

4. Croatian flag

5. The official Croatian currency is Croatian kuna.
Our currency is the only one in Europe called by animal.
1 € = 7,5kn
Currency

7. The Croatian language
• The Croatian language is official language
• By religion most of the people in Croatia are
Roman Catholic
Croatian

8. • Hvala- Thank you!
• Dobar dan!- Good
afternoon!
• Laku noć!- Good night!
• Gladan sam!- I’m hungry!
• Upomoć!- Help!

9. radition

10. FOOD
Turkey with ,,mlinci’’
Zagorje
Slavonija
Čvarci
PaprenjaciDalmacija
Lika
Gulaš

11. KlapaDalmacija
Gusle
SlavonijaTamburice
Diple
Istra
MUSIC

12. Zagreb
Dalmacija
Slavonija
Island Susak
CLOTHES

16. FROM CROATIAN HISTORY

17. VLAHO BUKOVAC EDO MURTIĆ

18. FROM OUR SCHOOL

19. ZVONIMIR MALIGEC
VJERAN
DRAŠKOVIć

20. A SCULPTOR

21. Ivan Meštrović
Indian with a bow – Grant park in Chicago Nikola Tesla - Zagreb
the greatest sculptor since the Renaissance

23. Ivana Brlić Mažuranić
• she obtained the title of „Croatian Hans Christian Andersen”
• she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times
• her books of novels and fairy tales for children have been translated into nearly all European
languages

25. IF YOU LIKE MICHAEL JACKSON...
LISTEN HOW IT SOUNDS IN THE PERFORMNCE
OF 2 CELLOS
StjepanHauser
LukaŠulić
EVEN ELTON JOHN WAS IMPRESED!

27. …OR MAYBE OUR PIANISTS..
AS A WORLD FAMOUSE ONES
IIvo Pogorelić

29. OR JUST.. SIMPLY…
ME! 
GabrijelaPapec

30. nventors

31. Ivan Vučetić
• Anthropologist and police officer
• Use of fingerprints in criminal cases
without Ivan Vučetić:

32. Nikola Tesla
• Inventor of remote control, alternating current
and many more
without Nikola Tesla:

33. Faust Vrančić
• Ineventor of parachute
without Faust Vrančić:

34. Slavoljub Penkala
• Inventor of pen
without Slavoljub Penkala:

35. THERE IS NO SITUATION OR A
PROBLEM
YOU CAN IMAGINE
BUT…

36. ..THAT THIS MAN
CAN’T SOLVE
FOR YOU..

37. PROFESSOR BALTHAZAR –
A SPECIAL INVENTOR
HIS NAME IS

39. To visit
Plenty of places
FOR TOURISTS
.National parks
UNESCO protected monumentsThe Adriatic Sea ….mainly shallow , warm and salty.
…or just some peaceful and relaxing place

40. For a cultural heritage admirer

41. Croatian lacemaking

42. Catholic procession of the Cross – Island Hvar

43. Production of wooden toys in Zagorje

44. Tradicional dance - Bećarac

45. „Sinjska alka” in the town of Sinj

46. Luka Modrić - a Croatian famouse football player, today in Real Madrid
They can inspire you… as a very famouse ones

47. Blanka Vlašić - double world champion in the high jump

48. Janica Kostelić - won the World Cup three times

49. Sandra Perković - a Croatian discus thrower, World and Olympic champion

50. ool

51. PROFESSOR BALTHAZAR
Professor Balthazar is a Croatian animated television series for
children about an old inventor that was produced between
1967 and 1978. It was created by animator Zlatko Grgić.

52. • Google celebrated his birthday.
Who is he?
• Penkala - a croatian inventor who invented
a pen
• Matija Čop
Who is he?
– a croatian designer who designed dresses for Lady Gaga
in her music video G.U.Y..

53. Did you know..?
• Game of thrones - some of
the most important scenes
of were filmed in Croatia
• A tie is an original croatian
product.
You can even
celebrate
a Tie day
on 18th of October.

54. • Dalmatian dogs are
from Croatia.
• National costume of
island Susak is the
shortest
one in the world.
• A beach on island Brač
is a natural phenomen
because it’s coast is
constantly
moving

55. Festivals in Croatia
…so many??

56. Popular festvals in Croatia
• Ultra Europe (Split)
• Unknown Festival (Zadar)
• Fresh Island (Zrće, Pag)
• Terraneo Festival (Šibenik)
• Dimensions Festival (Pula)
• INmusic festival (Zagreb)

57. Movie festivals
There are over 60 movie festivals in Croatia during the whole
year.
Some of them are big and international
and some are small events that are happening in the
city.

58. Which one?
• Motovun film festival
• Zagreb film festival
• Animafest Zagreb -
dedecated to animated
movies.
• Pula film festival

59. And if you would like to have some
special weding..please contact us!
..because among over
a thousand islands we
have even very special
one!

61. Elementary School
˝Zapruđe˝
Zagreb, Croatia

62. A building
Today (2015)At the begining (1965)

63. Yes, it’s our 50th anniversary !

64. What can you do in our school?

65. ..be an ordinary student
You can

66. ..or just unordinary one

67. You can
..keep calm and enjoy the show in the school hall

68. ..or just watch girls on the balcony!

69. You can
..be an ordinary Math teacher

70. ..or completely unordinary one!

71. You can
..come and watch a movie show in the school
hall

72. ..but also won an Oscar as a real star!

73. You can
..paint anything

74. ..and anywhere

75. At the wekend you can
Stay at home, rest from school, watch TV or
play video games

76. ..be a member of a school hiking group, travel
around and enyoj the nature!
But you can also..

77. ..and many, many more things you can do in
our school..
Like being
a member of
a chess group,
choir,
eco group,
movie group,
school sports team..

78. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ZAPRUĐE
IS WAITING FOR YOU!
BECAUSE OF ALL THINGS WE HAVE TOLD YOU
AND MUCH MORE THINGS WE DIDN’T ,
COME AND VISIT US!