Northern Velebit National Park (Lika)

nothernvelebitThe Northern Velebit National Park was proclaimed a national park on June 9, 1999 due to its richness of natural phenomena, outstanding biodiversity and its beautiful nature on a relatively small area.

The Park covers an area of 109 km2, and inside there is the Hajducki & Rozanski Ledges Strict Reserve, famous for its geomorphological phenomena - the pits. Up to now, more than 150 pits have been discovered, out of which the most famous is Luke's pit, discovered in 1992.

Within the park, you can find a number of botanical garden. The Visibaba botanical reserve which is rich of the endemic Croatian Sibirrhaea (Sibiraea altaiensis ssp. croatica), the Zavižan-Balinovac-Velika kosa botanical reserve, famous for its outstanding collection of species of the mountain flora, and the widely known Velebit Botany Garden, founded in 1967.

The Park is crisscrossed with numerous mountaineering trails. The most famous and widely known is the Premuzic trail, named after its constructor (Ante Premuzic) who built it in the late 1933. The path runs through the most beautiful and the most interesting parts of the park. From the numerous peaks in the surroundings you can have a magnificent view on the Adriatic Sea and its islands Pag, Rab, Goli, Prvic and Krk, and on the continental side as well. The Park's cultural value is present in a form of numerous ruins of the so-called "summer lodges", which witness of the ages passed and long forgotten, when Velebit was inhabited by the numerous population of shepherds and cattlemen. On its coastal banks you can find many ruined houses, lodges and stonewalls which once marked the specific lifestyle of the local population who scattered all around the globe in the days to come, leaving nothing but traces of their presence on this remarkably beautiful and exquisite land.

 

 

 

 

For more information, check the official Nothern Velebit website

 
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