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03 / Follow the changing leaves

Nature & colour

Lake reflections, woodland paths and days made for looking a little closer.

Autumn colour beside the water in Plitvice Lakes National Park

Give the season
some room.

Plitvice gives autumn colour a dramatic setting, while Gorski Kotar invites a more intimate encounter with forest country. Near Zagreb, parkland can become part of an easy city stay. Farther east, the wetland rhythms of Kopački Rit offer a different way to follow the season. Plan around daylight, open routes and the weather you find.

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Your autumn edit.

Lika / Water beneath the autumn canopy

Plitvice Lakes

Forests, cascading lakes and changing colour. Give Croatia's great inland landscape a day with nothing else competing for it.

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Kvarner highlands / Into the forest

Gorski Kotar

Woodland paths, clear streams and a place to settle in. A highland escape that pairs naturally with the Kvarner coast.

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Central Croatia / The city, in autumn colour

Zagreb

Parks, market mornings, museums and a table worth lingering over. Croatia's capital makes a complete autumn escape.

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Eastern Croatia / Where autumn takes flight

Baranja & Kopački Rit

Wetlands, bird migration and wine-cellar culture. Follow the season east for one of Croatia's most individual autumn journeys.

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Northern Croatia / Castles, gardens and vineyard hills

Zagorje & Varaždin

Trakošćan's wooded setting, Varaždin's historic streets and the countryside of Zagorje. A richly varied journey north of Zagreb.

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One season. Different stories.