Croatia's heritage

1. CROATIA
K. IF ALL OF THE WORLD’S CULTURAL HERITAGE (SPORTS, MUSIC,
FASHION, ARCHITECTURE, LITERATURE, PAINTING, ETC..) WAS
CONTAINED IN A TIME CAPSULE, WHAT WOULD YOU INCLUDE TO
DEMONSTRATE THE LEGACY OF YOUR COUNTRY?
by: Drago Cota

2. Architecture
Cathedral in Zagreb Cathedral in Šibenik Cathedral in Đakovo

3. - Croatia has been divided into three states in 15th century, which results in different architectural remains from that period
- Northern part (which includes Zagreb) has been a part of Austrian Empire
- Dalmatia (which includes Šibenik) has been a part of Venetian Republic
- Slavonia (which includes Đakovo) has been a part of Ottoman Empire

4. Mediteranean Architecture
Dubrovnik Rovinj (Istria) Split (Dalmatia)

5. Writers
Miroslav Krleža Marko Marulić Antun Gustav Matoš

6. - Miroslav Krleža was a leading Croatian writer and a prominent figure in cultural life of both Yugoslav states, the
Kingdom (1918–1941) and the Socialist Republic (1945 until his death in 1981). A one time Vice President and
General Secretary of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (JAZU), he has often been proclaimed the greatest
Croatian writer of the 20th century and beyond.
- Marko Marulić was a Croatian national poet and Christian humanist, known as the Crown of the Croatian Medieval
Age and the father of the Croatian Renaissance.[1] He signed his works as Marko Marulić Splićanin ("Marko Marulić
of Split"), Marko Pečenić, Marcus Marulus (or de Marulis) Spalatensis, or Dalmata. He was also the first who defined
and used the notion of psychology, which is today in current use.
- Antun Gustav Matoš was a Croatian poet, short story writer, journalist, essayist and travelogue writer. He is
considered the champion of Croatian modernist literature, opening Croatia to the currents of European modernism.

7. Musicians
Oliver Dragojević Josipa Lisac Ivo Robić

8. - Oliver Dragojević was born in Split but he was rasied in Vela Luka on the island of Korčula. He is one of the rare
Croatian musicians that perforemed in New York’s Carnegie Hall and in London’s Royal Albert Hall.
- Josipa Lisac has unique personality on the Croatian music scene. A singer with a career of over 40 years, vocally
superior, with specific interpretations and an unconventional style. She developed her characteristic vocal and fashion
style with a distinctive identity.
- Ivo Robić is a singer and composer born on January 29, 1927 in Garešnica, Croatia. A pioneer of popular Yugoslavian
music from the early 1950s on, Robić was an artist who successfully pursued both domestic and international careers for
almost half a century. When he began, he was the only artist from Yugoslavia whose records were available in the
record shops of Europe and the rest of the world.

9. National Teams
Handball Waterpolo Football
• Two time Olympic gold winners (1996,
2004)
• World Cup winners (2003)
• Olympic gold winners (2012)
• World cup winners (2007)
• World Cup Bronze medal (1998)

10. Athletes
Janica Kostelić Goran Ivanišević Blanka Vlašić
• 4 Olympic gold medals
• 2 Olympic silver medals
• 5 World Cup gold medals
• Wimbledon winner (2001)
• 2 Olympic bronze medals (1992)
• Olympic silver medal (2008)
• 2 World Cup gold medals (2007,
2009)

11. Inventions
Solid-ink Fountain Pen Necktie Parachute

12. • Solid-ink fountain pen was invented by Eduard Slavoljub Penkala in 1907. Penkala was a Croatian engineer and inventor
of Dutch-Polish-Jewish descent. He became renowned for further development of the mechanical pencil (1906)—then
called an "automatic pencil"—and the first solid-ink fountain pen (1907). Collaborating with an entrepreneur by the name of
Edmund Moster, he started the Penkala-Moster Company and built a pen-and-pencil factory that was one of the biggest in
the world at the time. This company, now called TOZ Penkala, still exists today.
• The roots of a necktie date back to the Thirty Years’ war, when Croatian soldiers in French service wore the small, knotted
neckerchiefs around the neck. This fashionable item was than adopted by French and became the sign of French nobility.
Due to the slight difference between the Croatian word for Croats, Hrvati, and the French word, Croates, the garment
gained the name "cravat."
• Faust Vrancic constructed a first parachute based on Da Vinci's drawing. He jumped from a Venice tower in 1617 wearing
a rigid-framed parachute. Faust Vrancic published Machinae Novae, in which he describes in text and picture fifty-six
advanced technical constructions, including the parachute called the Homo Volans.