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Alma Travel & Vacation |
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Palmizana is a small island in the South Adriatic, renowned for the highest number of sunny hours in the Mediterranean. It's part of the Paklina archipelago, positioned south of the island of Hvar. The tourist complex of the Meneghello family comprises 300 hectars of uninhabited virgin territory - a protected nature preserve, known for it's lonely sand beaches and distinctive stone bungalows (60 beds) surrounded by an exotic botanical park and cristal clear sea. Exquisite traditional Palmizana cuisine is praised for it's delicious specialities, based on fish, lobsters, scampi, shellfish and other sea-food served with fresh vegetables from the island gardens. The cuisine has been declared on of the best in the Mediterranean by the German Magazine Boote, English Traveler and Croatian magazines Gloria and Playboy. Palmizana is an ideal holiday resort for anyone who desires high class tourism, who wishes for something unique: a different kind of holiday, harmony with nature, quietness. For the more active there is a rich variety of different sport activities: from diving to under-water safari, from sport or classic fishing to pheasant hunting and sailing, from water skiing to windsurfing. Bars and restaurants only a couple of minutes away by a powerboat offer late night entertainment. Palmizana is the best choice for a vacation welcoming the young and the elderly as well as families with children and, of course, your household pet. It's romantic landscapes and bungalows make Palmizana an ideal place for a honeymoon. It's a sanctuary for all who are tired of civilisation, for all who want to renew their strength and rest their bodies and souls in nature. Palmizana offers piece and quiet and lures you into adventures brought by the sea – a self designed vacation: just the way you dream it should be! The tourist complex of Palmizana can accomodate groups, small conventions and workshops of every kind - art workshops, jewellers workshops, diving schools, undersea photo safaris. This area of the Adriatic hides the greates number of antique shipwrecks and places on the sea-bed where one can easily find amphorae. Therefore it is no surprise that the Meneghello family amphore collection is one of the biggest in the Adriatic. The sea around the Palmizana is a treasury of fish, coral and incredibly beautiful undersea landscapes. The botanical gardens of Palmizana are full of exotic plants, tree-like opuntias, agaves, numerous other cacti and succulents, mimosas, eucalyptuses, laurels, olives and different kinds of aromatic herbs and plants. The Meneghello family once owned the oldest aromatic herb and plant processing factory. Their equisential, medicine made from rosemary, first manufactured in 1848 can still be found in every home medicine cabinet. The rosemary, which blooms several times a year on every slope on Palmizana, filling the air with it's heady scent gave Palmizana it's second name: The Island of the Rosemary. Aloa, the plant that is said to be g iven to mankind by God because it cures manny ills, even cancer, also grows everywhere. Life on Palmizana is lived in the hot sun of it's many beaches, in the shade of its old pines and on the beautiful restaurant terrace and private terraces of the bungalows. Near the restaurant terrace there is a Gallery, and the restaurant and bungalows are also full of artworks. Palmizana has a marina with room for 200 boats, small shop and a tourist information office where you can have a trip organised for you. Palmizana was declared one of the "10 Dream Points of the Adriatic" in 1999. In a poll by the Cruising World magazine thousands of yachtsmen said that the coast of Croatia is the most beautiful in the world, together with that of the caribbean. The Traveller magazine deckared the island of Hvar one of ten most beautiful islands in the world. And what would Hvar be without its archipelago and Palmizana? It seems almost unecessary to say that Palmizana is one of the most beautifuls places in the world. Tourism on Palmizana was established in 1906 by professor E ugen Meneghello on his 300-year-old estate. He imported exotic plants from all over the world and so created this rare and magnificent botanical park. Eugen's son, Giorgio Meneghello Toto, one of world's best grouper fishers, built the island's complex and his wife Dagmar (ne: Gebauer) has been managing Palmizana for over 30 years. Nowardays she does it with the help of her three children, Eugen-Toto, Romina and Tarin and her grandson, who has already cought his first grouper. 1999 brought the big renovation, modernisation and beautifying of the complex, bungalows and restaurant as well as the infrastructure, allowing Palmizana to satisfy the requirements of highly individual tourism, and visually blend even further with the beautiful envoronment. |
 A view towards the sea  Palmizana's cuisine  Ideal holiday  Garden detail  White Villa  A detail from amphorae collection  Palmizana's terrace  Lavanda fields  Bungalows |
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