Feb 17 2012
A Few Of Them Didn’t Hide Their Eagerness About Croatia, Like Bill Gates, One Of The Wealthiest People In The World Who Recommended Croatia As One Of The Ideal Places For A Holiday In Forbes Mag.
American Television network CNN was right to announce at the start of the year that Croatia would this summer be one of the most popular destinations for famoust stars of the world. In support of this announcement are definitely the photos of Hollywood actress Eva Longoria dancing and one of the finest tennis players of all time, John McEnroe at Stradun in Dubrovnik. The Croatian coast and islands are visited annually by more and more famous guests.
A few of them did not hide their zeal about Croatia, like Bill Gates, one of the richest folks in the world who suggested Croatia as one of the best places for a vacation in Forbes mag. The conceiver of Microsoft and his family visited Skradin, a town in central Dalmatia and the Nation’s Park Krka.
Eva Longoria and her husband, the famous NBA player Tony Parker and friends, amongst which were actors Amaury Nolasco and Jennifer Morrison, cruised the coast and visited Mali Loinj, Zadar, Kornati, ibenik, Skradin, Trogir, Split and Hvar, where they, judging by the pictures released by the world’s media, had a dazzling time. They also ended up in a club in Vodice called Hacienda, where they held the DJ Cut Killer and Tony Parker Show. They also visited Dubrovnik, which is the place visited by most celebrities.They planned to visit also and Makarska. Amongst them was also the famous American actor Morgan Freeman, the guest of honor at the Dubrovnik Film Meeting Holiday, which has been organized during the past couple of years in collusion with the Sarajevo Film Holiday. During the past few years Gillian Anderson, Mickey Rourke, Steve Buscemi and Kevin Spacey were also among those that visited.
Even at the start of the season, walking the highways of Dubrovnik were the planet’s most noted flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia, the TV crime show star Dennis Franz and former German chancelor Gerharda Schroedera.
The 1st days of summer were spent in Croatia by the Hollywood couple Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, who arrived in Dubrovnik from Rome.
This year’s Libertas film holiday was marked by the new acting star Gabourey Sidibe, who was nominated for an Oscar for her first role in the film Valuable. At the opening of the festival there were several more famous faces to be seen, like the Czeck film director and Oscar winner Jirij Menzel and one of the most productive film makers of Hollywood, Dantea Spinottija.
Dubrovnik was also host to a charity tennis match between Wimbledon winner Goran Ivanisevic ; and one of the best tennis players of all time Johna McEnroea, who was accompanied by his other half Patty Smyth and their youngsters.
The second ranked tennis player, Novak Djokovic ; was having a great time in Split, and also spending his summer in Croatia after seven years, was the French handball members, who has Croatian roots, Nikola Karabatic;. He visited his family in Poljice, close to Trogir, visited Dubrovnik and went to a concert in Primoten.
Some of the musical greats failed to only come to Croatia for a vacation but also for performaces, either individual of as part of the numerous summer holidays.
Concerts in Zadar were held by Seal and the soul-jazz diva Natalie Cole.
Thanks to the Garden festival, one of the best Western european summer events, a samll fishing village Petrcane next to Zadar was visited by many stars of electronic music such as Hercules & Love Affairs, 2020 Soundsystem, Silly P, Dave Bee-ar, Tristan Da Cunha, Pony Meat Disco, DJ Stu Patterson, Greg Wilson, Norman Jay i Henrik Schwarz.
The Garden festival is highly ranked in the second position of the best summer holidays according to a leading EU on-line mag for electronic music Resident Consultant, while the English The Times last year included it amongst the 20 best EU summer festivals, not only because of the choice of musicians but also thanks to the special location on the penninsula Pinija in Petr269;ani and the pine woods near to the sea.
Pretty Croatian beaches, many concealed coves and excellent cuisine have already been discovered by stars such Steven Spielberga, Andre Agassi, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Sharon Stone, Tom Cruise, Bono Vox, Beyonce and Jay Z and many others, writes tagza.com.