DUBROVNIIK EVENTS 2012/2013
FEBRUARY 2012
11 – 21 FEBRUARY 2012
DUBROVNIK MASKED FESTIVALS
Our ancestors also had fun, and so should we... is a proverb which one can hear in Dubrovnik in February during the carnival, the time when everything is allowed, when people become someone else or show their true face... Experience the special atmosphere of the Dubrovnik carnival festivities characterized by jokes, laughter, merriment, joy, satire… feel the special spirit of the City at carnival time!
11 – 19 FEBRUARY 2012
DUBROVNIK KARNEVAL FEST 2012
www.karnevalfest.hr
The Dubrovnik Carnival Festival - an international cultural and entertaining event featuring numerous carnival and music programmes - will take place for the second time under the patronage of the City of Dubrovnik and the Dubrovnik Tourist Board from 11 to 19 February 2012.
13. – 14. MARCH 2012
Hotel Valamar Lacroma Dubrovnik
WINE & GASTRONOMY FESTIVAL 2012
24 MARCH – 2 APRIL 2012
CHRISTIAN CULTURE DAYS
The 2012 Christian Culture Days continue the tradition established in 2005. This year too, the 11-day event – which takes place in Split, Dubrovnik, Šibenik and Zadar featuring an extensive cultural and spiritual programme – aims at the promotion and events serving as a base for both the European culture and the Croatian cultural heritage.
24 MARCH 2012
OYSTERS FESTIVAL
The story of oysters, the shellfish with aphrodisiac properties, has been known from ancient times, when the Dubrovnik Republic aristocrats savoured them at their renaissance feasts. Austrian emperors were also familiar with the legend of the oyster’s magical properties and it was often included in their menus. We are talking about the oysters cultivated in the Bay of Mali Ston, the part of the Dubrovnik region whose sea is considered to be the cleanest and clearest in the world. In the village of Mali Ston a special festival is organised on the occasion of St Joseph's Day, including lectures on oysters and shellfish cultivation, while the gastronomic events include an oyster specialities tasting. On 18 March, in the Stradun, oyster farmers from Mali Ston and wine-makers from the Pelješac Peninsula will offer this
gastronomic delicacy to visitors and tourists, along with the outstanding Pelješac red wines
and the vocal groups' song.
29 MARCH – 1 APRIL 2012
9th MEDITERRANEAN FAIR OF HEALTHY FOOD, MEDICINAL HERBS AND GREEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The 9th Mediterranean Fair of Healthy Food, Medicinal Herbs and Green Entrepreneurship will again attract numerous exhibitors, experts, patrons and enthusiasts who will present an assortment of Croatian ecological and traditional products. This specialised event has gained prominence as a major fair in Croatia and the DubrovnikNeretva County in the field of ecological, traditional agriculture and green entrepreneurship. Last year’s Mediterranean Fair gathered together 300 exhibitors form all parts of Croatia and from the neighbouring countries, and had more than 30.000 visitors.
This year’s aims include the presentation of new products (hybrid, electric vehicles, eco furniture and clothes made of natural fabrics) and the 4th Dubrovnik-Neretva County Honey Festival. The Fair also aims at achieving higher levels of quality where both the presentation and products are concerned. The Best Presentation Prize, the Best Product Prize and the Prize for Eco-Economy Promotion in Croatia will be awarded. For the purpose of presenting Croatia’s high quality products, the Fair will continue to
promote labels such as Original Croatian Product, Croatian Quality and Product of Croatian
Islands. Other events will include educational round tables, lectures, presentations and
attractive cultural, entertaining and gastronomic programmes.
www.mediteranski-sajam.com
APRIL 2012
28 APRIL 2012
FLOWER FAIR 4. – 15. APRIL 2012
EASTER FAIR
8 APRIL 2012
EASTER PROGRAMME
"MALO JAJE NA DAR DATO, SETAN USKRS MOJE ZLATO" 13 – 14 APRIL 2012
AKLAPELA – VOCAL GROUPS FESTIVAL
Aklapela is the yearly gathering of the most valuable „klapa“ (klapa is a word for company of 5 and more people who sing without any musical accompaniment) accomplishments through few chamber concerts of the selected Croatian men and women „klapa“. The intension is to allow few concert performances in a way or close to the conditions that use to be in terms of creation and performance of the traditional Croatian „klapa“ singing. Aklapela will take place after Easter, for the so called „Little Easter“ in the times when everything is waking up, the times of new beginnings.
This gathering is not competition – it is all about presentation of the best „klapa“, mingling of the authors, artists, “klapa” managers with the audience and this makes the heart of this project.
30 APRIL – 6 MAY 2012
DUBROVNIK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
web: www.dubrovnikshakespearefestival.com
MAY 2012
MAY – SEPTEMBER 2012
Cultural Historical Museum
EXHIBITION SAINT BLAISE IN HISTORY AND ART
www.mdc.hr
JUNE 2012
2 – 3 JUNE 2012
Swimming pool in Gruž
GOLDEN ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING CONTEST
16 – 26 JUNE 2012 LE PETIT FESTIVAL
21 – 24 June 2012
MUSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL "ANA IN TOWN"
27 – 30 JUNE 2012
DUBROVNIK INTERNATIONAL OPERA FESTIVAL
www.dubrovnik-opera-festival.com
The Aragosa Travel Agency from Dubrovnik and it's partner Albania Experience Travel Agency from Albania are organizers of the DUBROVNIK INTERNATIONAL OPERA FESTIVAL – HOMMAGER TINO PATTIERA. The festival is named after and organized in the memory of the world famous tenor Tino Pattiera born on June 27th, 1890 inCavtat, a town situated about twenty kilometers away from Dubrovnik, where he died April 24th, 1966. Tino Pattiera was one of the major singers at the opera houses both in Europe and worldwide in the first half of the 20th century. He was the leading singer at the Royal Saxon Court Opera in Dresden.
JULY 2012
JULY – AUGUST 2012
DUBROVNIK FILM MEETING
www.dubrovnikevents.com
Dubrovnik Film Meeting, an exclusive film event which the Adriatic Luxury Hotels Group organizes each year in cooperation with the most influential and prestigious film festival in the region - Sarajevo Film Festival....
1 JULY – 1 SEPTEMBER 2012
RE-ACTION FESTIVAL OF URBAN CULTURE
6- 8 JULY 2012
DUBROVNIK FASHION WEEK
www.dubrovnikfashionweek.com
This is a creative fashion and art event that will feature most prominent regional and international fashion designers. Because of it's exceptional beauty and specific cultural and historical heritage, Dubrovnik has been under the protection of UNESCO since 1979. It is one of the biggest Croatian brands and one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the world. This year, a large amount of visitors is expected and apart from participants, DFWI will host artists, musicians, journalists, critics, celebrities, jet-setters and many respected guest from the region and the world.
Apart from fashion shows, this years programme will feature selected artist shows and VIP parties. After last years succesfull event, fashion shows held at unique baroque and renessaince ambient of Stradun plaza in central old town Dubrovnik, will again be unique happening in this part of the world.
10 JULY – 8 AUGUST 2012
WATERPOLO WILD LEAGUE
www.divljaliga.hr
Meetings of amateur water polo teams started back in1922. Occasionally they were interrupted and then continued again. And when in the eighties of the past century, many started to think that this nice tradition is stopped forever, Ivo Kolić restarted it. Many from local beach Porporela helped him. They gathered money, bought everything they needed and made a playground. They took couple of balls and water polo caps from Jug, and they started again with the competition. Tradition went on.
Today this Championship of Dubrovnik local beach is largest amateur competition in the world. More than 40 teams jumps into the sea every year in the beginning of July, and starts a race for the title of a champion.
10 JULY – 25 AUGUST 2012
63rd DUBROVNIK SUMMER FESTIVAL
www.dubrovnik-festival.hrThe ambience and the finest artists from all over the world will remain the basic feature of the
63rd Festival which will take place from 10 July till 25 August. Festival audience will have
the opportunity to see more than 80 theatre, music, dance and film programs taking place in
churches, fortresses, squares and streets of Dubrovnik.
AUGUST 2012
3 – 5 AUGUST 2012
Orebić – Dubrovnik
SOUTH DALMATIAN REGATTA
SLIKA I TEKST
4 – 14 AUGUST 2012
SUMMER SCHOOL ŠIPAN SEPTEMBER 2012
1 – 8 SEPTEMBER 2012
FESTIVAL OF CHAMBER MUSIC "JULIAN RACHLIN & FRIENDS"
www.rachlinandfriends.com
Dear chamber music lovers, exquisite art and rich history admirers,
Welcome to the Festival of chamber music “Julian Rachlin and Friends” in the historical town
of Dubrovnik. For the ninth time in a row, one of the most beautiful towns in the
Mediterranean and Europe hosts world-renowned chamber musicians and their fans. Pieces of
the most famous classical composers will be performed on the unique stages within the
distinctive historical core of the Town, welcoming their loyal audiences and friends of the Festival from around the globe. The days ahead of us are the days of celebration of the beauty
of life, togetherness and friendship.
27 SEPTEMBER 2012
WORLD TOURISM DAY CELEBRATION
OCTOBER 2012
DUBROVNIK GASTRO TABLE 3 – 6 OCTOBER 2012
DUBROVNIK EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
6 – 7 OCTOBER 2012
INTERNATIONAL JUDO TOURNAMENT FOR SENIORS "DUBROVNIK CUP" 6 – 7 OCTOBER 2012
6th FESTIVAL OF JAM AND MARMALADE
www.desa-dubrovnik.hr
11 – 13 OCTOBER 2012
INTERNATIONAL CHOIR FESTIVAL 13 – 28 OCTOBER 2012
Lapad Tennis Courts & HTC Babin – kuk Tennis Courts
INTERNATIONAL TENNIS TOURNAMENTS
ITF MENS FUTURES – SENIORI
ITF WOMENS CIRCUIT
DECEMBER 2012
13 DECEMBER 2012 – 6 JANUARY 2013
CHRISTMASS FAIR At the time of the December holidays the Unesco World Heritage City of Dubrovnik will
shine with magical decorations and sparkle with fairy lights, creating the atmosphere of a
fairy-tale renaissance city. In the month of gift giving the Christmas Fair will take
place.Traditional crafts will be presented, and handicrafts, Christmas decorations, candles,
toys, glassware, embroidery, ceramics, porcelain and all the objects which the artists' hands
manufactured for Christmas will be displayed. The caterers will offer Christmas cookies,
sweet delicacies, mulled wine, bruštulani mjenduli (candied almonds), and traditional
Dubrovnik sweet delicacies including kontonjata (quince cheese), mantala (must cheese),
prikle (doughnuts), hrostule (deep fried biscuits) and other delicacies prepared for this holiday
time.
31 DECEMBER 2012
DUBROVNIK NEW'S YEAR PARTY
In addition to its astonishing history and cultural heritage, Dubrovnik is special for is craziest
New Year's Party, which has been organised in the City at the foot of Mount Srđ since 1995,
and which makes our city one of the most attractive destinations for having a great time in the
longest nights. Numerous visitors to Dubrovnik will see the New Year 2012 in entrained by a spectacular
music programme, and the City at the foot of Mount Srđ is the only one in which this
programme takes place already from the morning hours of 31st December.
JANUARY 2013
27 JANUARY 2013
NIGHT OF MUSEUMS
www.mdc.hr
JANUARY – FEBRUARY 2013
FESTA 2013
FEBRUARY 2013
2 FEBRUARY 2013
in front of Sponza Palace
SOUR ORANGE DAY
www.desa-dubrovnik.hr2
FEBRUARY 2013
Candlemass, in front of St Blaise's Church
OPENING CEREMONY OF SAINT BLAISE FESTIVITY
Ever since the year 972, when people began to celebrate it, the feast day of St Blaise,
Dubrovnik patron saint, has been a quite special festival, typical of Dubrovnik. Apart from the
opening ceremony on Candlemass Day a festive procession in Stradun is organised with a
large number of congregation members taking part. A series of church and secular concerts,
exhibitions, book presentations and theatre guest performances are dedicated to the patron
saint of Dubrovnik, whose statues look at us from the city walls and gates and whose caring
hand guards Dubrovnik on his palm.
3 FEBRUARY 2013
SAINT BLAISE FESTIVITY The saint that proclaims spring
Not much has changed in over a thousand years of patron saint celebrations in the city located
under Mount Srđ. True, Dubrovnik no longer has its Rector or nobility, but the beautiful stone
Rectors Palace is still here. As well as the neighbouring baroque Church of St. Blaise, and up
towards Pustijerna, fourth in line, the Dubrovnik Cathedral.
Regularly, on February 02nd, Dubrovnik celebrates its Virgin Mary Candlemas. An old
saying is then repeated: Candelora, winters gone, followed by Saint Blaise, who says it is
untrue. Indeed, on this day, when inland cities are bathed in rain, and Europe is frequently
swept by snow, Dubrovnik is full of mimosa, narcissi, and - sunny, springtime days. In the
morning, white pigeons are released in front of the saints church, and prayers are said in front
of the altar by the faithful the entire day. The priests bless everyone with a cross shaped out of
two intertwined candles, and raise a silver monstrance to their lips, the work of Dubrovnik
goldsmiths. The monstrance contains a bone from the throat of a saint known as a miracleworker in Sebaste, who healed by touch.
On the saints day, churchgoers arrive from distant Dubrovnik areas, dressed in national
costumes. They carry their church emblems, and as they come before the church, they salute
the patron saint by twirling the banners in such a manner that they never touch the ground.
The holy mass is held in the morning in an overcrowded church. Afterwards, a procession of
priests and churchgoers line up for a procession through the street Ulica od puča. Holy
reliquaries are carried on this occasion: the Byzantine crown of St. Blaise, the hand and leg
reliquaries, the holy monstrance, and the shroud of Jesus. This multitude proceeds along the
main street of Dubrovnik, the famous Stradun, and subsequently returns to the church.
In Dubrovnik on this day, it is difficult to say what is more beautiful and more exciting: the
national costumes of Primorje, Župa Dubrovačka or Konavle. It looks like the return of old
traditional times. Focus is drawn towards the colorful church banners, and their fluttering, on
the square behind Orlando and the group of trombunjera, who carry short, broad rifles on their
shoulders. Long ago in Dubrovnik, the noise they issued used to frighten enemies away. They emit volleys before entering the city, and at Brsalje, where rifle and cannon shooting
were practiced in the days of the Republic. Only when the city is covered in evening darkness,
and the saints reliquaries are resting in the treasury, do the village confraternities return home.
Green laurel wreaths decorate the front of the beautiful baroque entrance of the saints church,
while the stained-glass windows on the façade shine. The statue of St. Blaise gazes down at
the passers-by from the city walls, elaborate buildings and churches, with an outstretched
hand that holds a model of the city as it has for centuries, as if to bring it closer to the heart
and embrace of the patron.
3 – 12 FEBRUARY 2013
DUBROVNIK CARNIVAL FESTIVITIES 2013
Our ancestors also had fun, and so should we... is a proverb which one can hear in Dubrovnik
in February during the carnival, the time when everything is allowed, when people become
someone else or show their true face... Experience the special atmosphere of the Dubrovnik
carnival festivities characterized by jokes, laughter, merriment, joy, satire… feel the special
spirit of the City at carnival time!
9 – 12 FEBRUARY 2013
DUBROVNIK CARNIVAL 2013
12 FEBRUARY 2013
MASKED BALL FINAL MARCH 2013
MARCH 2013
10th MEDITERRANEAN FAIR OF HEALTHY FOOD, MEDICAL HERBS AND GREEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
16 – 25 MARCH 2013
CHRISTIAN CULTURE DAYS The 2013 Christian Culture Days continue the tradition established in 2005. This year too, the
11-day event – which takes place in Split, Dubrovnik, Šibenik and Zadar featuring an
extensive cultural and spiritual programme – aims at the promotion and events serving as a
base for both the European culture and the Croatian cultural heritage.
27 MARCH – 7 APRIL 2013
EASTER FAIR
31 MARCH 2013
EASTER PROGRAMME
"MALO JAJE NA DAR DATO, SETAN USKRS MOJE ZLATO" APRIL 2013
APRIL 2013
FLOWER FAIR
APRIL 2013
LIBERTAS FILM FESTIVAL
www.libertasfilmfestival.com
Libertas Film Festival will turn Dubrovnik into a film stage. Top films from all around the
world on outdoor screening locations, celebrity guests, parties and live concerts… And this
year's program is even better than in our previous editions!
5 – 7 APRIL 2013
AKLAPELA – VOCAL GROUPS FESTIVAL Aklapela is the yearly gathering of the most valuable „klapa“ (klapa is a word for company of
5 and more people who sing without any musical accompaniment) accomplishments through
few chamber concerts of the selected Croatian men and women „klapa“. The intension is to
allow few concert performances in a way or close to the conditions that use to be in terms of
creation and performance of the traditional Croatian „klapa“ singing.
Aklapela will take place after Easter, for the so called „Little Easter“ in the times when
everything is waking up, the times of new beginnings.
This gathering is not competition – it is all about presentation of the best „klapa“, mingling of
the authors, artists, “klapa” managers with the audience and this makes the heart of this
project.
APRIL – MAY 2013
DUBROVNIK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
www.dubrovnikshakespearefestival.com
DSF is the festival of the drama and scene arts (classical and the modern one). The backbone
of the festival consists of the Shakespeare's playwrights.
DSF is created to prolong and deepened the cultural life of the one of the most beautiful cities
in the world, create the bilingual theatre that equally corresponds both to the citizens and visitors of Dubrovnik and to connect the charm of the old world with the fuss of the new
world in order to make Dubrovnik closer to the rest of the world as well as making the world
closer to Dubrovnik through the theatre.
JUNE 2013
1 – 2 JUNE 2013
Swimming pool in Gruž
GOLDEN ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING CONTEST
21 – 24 JUNE 2013
MUSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL "ANA IN TOWN"
26 – 29 JUNE 2013
DUBROVNIK INTERNATIONAL OPERA FESTIVAL
www.dubrovnik-opera-festival.com
The Aragosa Travel Agency from Dubrovnik and it's partner Albania Experience Travel
Agency from Albania are organizers of the DUBROVNIK INTERNATIONAL OPERA
FESTIVAL – HOMMAGER TINO PATTIERA. The festival is named after and organized in
the memory of the world famous tenor Tino Pattiera born on June 27th, 1890 inCavtat, a town
situated about twenty kilometers away from Dubrovnik, where he died April 24th, 1966.
Tino Pattiera was one of the major singers at the opera houses both in Europe and worldwide
in the first half of the 20th century. He was the leading singer at the Royal Saxon Court Opera
in Dresden.
JULY 2013
1 JULY – 1 SEPTEMBER 2013 RE-ACTION FESTIVAL OF URBAN CULTURE
10 JULY – 25 AUGUST 2013
64th DUBROVNIK SUMMER FESTIVAL
www.dubrovnik-festival.hr
The ambience and the finest artists from all over the world will remain the basic feature of the
63th Festival which will take place from 10 July till 25 August. Festival audience will have
the opportunity to see more than 80 theatre, music, dance and film programs taking place in
churches, fortresses, squares and streets of Dubrovnik.
13 JULY – 5 AUGUST 2013
WATERPOLO WILD LEAGUE
www.divljaliga.hr
Meetings of amateur water polo teams started back in1922. Occasionally they were
interrupted and then continued again. And when in the eighties of the past century,
many started to think that this nice tradition is stopped forever, Ivo Kolić restarted it.
Many from local beach Porporela helped him. They gathered money, bought
everything they needed and made a playground. They took couple of balls and water
polo caps from Jug, and they started again with the competition. Tradition went on.
Today this Championship of Dubrovnik local beach is largest amateur competition in the world. More than 40 teams jumps into the sea every year in the beginning of July,
and starts a race for the title of a champion.
AUGUST 2013
August 2013 Orebić – Dubrovnik
SOUTH DALMATIAN REGATTA
4 – 14 AUGUST 2013
SUMMER SCHOOL ŠIPAN SEPTEMBER 2013
SEPTEMBER 2013
FESTIVAL OF CHAMBER MUSIC "JULIAN RACHLIN & FRIENDS"
www.rachlinandfriends.com
Dear chamber music lovers, exquisite art and rich history admirers,
Welcome to the Festival of chamber music “Julian Rachlin and Friends” in the historical town
of Dubrovnik. For the ninth time in a row, one of the most beautiful towns in the
Mediterranean and Europe hosts world-renowned chamber musicians and their fans. Pieces of
the most famous classical composers will be performed on the unique stages within the
distinctive historical core of the Town, welcoming their loyal audiences and friends of the
Festival from around the globe. The days ahead of us are the days of celebration of the beauty
of life, togetherness and friendship.
27 SEPTEMBER 2013
WORLD TOURISM DAY CELEBRATION OCTOBER 2013
OCTOBER 2013
DUBROVNIK EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
5 – 6 OCTOBER 2013
INTERNATIONAL JUDO TOURNAMENT FOR SENIORS "DUBROVNIK CUP"
4 – 6 OCTOBER 2013
7th FESTIVAL OF JAM AND MARMALADE
www.desa-dubrovnik.hr
10 – 12 OCTOBER 2013 INTERNATIONAL CHOIR FESTIVAL
12 – 27 OCTOBER 2013
Lapad Tennis Courts & HTC Babin – kuk Tennis Courts
INTERNATIONAL TENNIS TOURNAMENTS
ITF MENS FUTURES – SENIORI
ITF WOMENS CIRCUIT
DECEMBER 2013
DECEMBER 2013 – JANUARY 2014
CHRISTMASS FAIR At the time of the December holidays the Unesco World Heritage City of Dubrovnik will
shine with magical decorations and sparkle with fairy lights, creating the atmosphere of a
fairy-tale renaissance city. In the month of gift giving the Christmas Fair will take
place.Traditional crafts will be presented, and handicrafts, Christmas decorations, candles,
toys, glassware, embroidery, ceramics, porcelain and all the objects which the artists' hands
manufactured for Christmas will be displayed. The caterers will offer Christmas cookies,
sweet delicacies, mulled wine, bruštulani mjenduli (candied almonds), and traditional
Dubrovnik sweet delicacies including kontonjata (quince cheese), mantala (must cheese),
prikle (doughnuts), hrostule (deep fried biscuits) and other delicacies prepared for this holiday
time.
31 DECEMBER 2013
DUBROVNIK NEW'S YEAR PARTY
In addition to its astonishing history and cultural heritage, Dubrovnik is special for is craziest
New Year's Party, which has been organised in the City at the foot of Mount Srđ since 1995,
and which makes our city one of the most attractive destinations for having a great time in the
longest nights. Numerous visitors to Dubrovnik will see the New Year 2012 in entrained by a spectacular music programme, and the City at the foot of Mount Srđ is the only one in which this
programme takes place already from the morning hours of 31st Dece
http://www.tzdubrovnik.hr/
