Plitvice Lakes National Park waterfalls
Tesla Delacroix · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sources & photography.
Real places, credited photography and official visitor sources.
This independent guide is published by Adriatic Ritual. Visitor sources were checked on 20 October 2026. Check the linked providers for current opening times, tickets, access and conditions.
Photography
Boardwalk and lower lakes, Plitvice Lakes National Park
Naval S · CC BY 2.0
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Waterfall, Plitvice Lakes National Park
Zysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Northern Velebit mountain landscape
Anil Öztas · CC BY-SA 4.0
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View of Kvarner Bay from Velika Kosa, Northern Velebit
Anil Öztas · CC BY-SA 4.0
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River Gacka, Lika
TomrlinDarko · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Majerovo vrilo spring and mills on the Gacka
Darko Stefanac · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Krasno field and village, Croatia
Damir Jelic · CC BY 2.5
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Brown bear at the Kuterevo bear sanctuary
Anil Öztas · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Nikola Tesla birthplace at Smiljan
Zátonyi Sándor, (ifj.) Fizped · CC BY 3.0
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Inside Samograd Cave, Grabovača Cave Park
Pećinski park Grabovača · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Ulica dr. Ante Starčevića, Gospić
Silverije · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Church of Croatian Martyrs, Udbina
IvanOS · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sveti Rok mountain, Lovinac municipality
LvivForev · CC0
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Senj panorama viewed from Nehaj fortress
Dans · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Zavratnica bay above Jablanac
Olgierd Rudak · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Adriatic coast and Opatija riviera on Kvarner
Jernej Furman from Slovenia · CC BY 2.0
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Visitor sources
- Plitvice Lakes ↗Entrance 1, exact published park coordinates converted from DMS
- Otočac & the Gacka valley ↗Town centre / OpenStreetMap place node
- Majerovo vrilo ↗Spring / OpenStreetMap node
- Tonković vrilo ↗Spring / OpenStreetMap node
- Northern Velebit · Zavižan ↗Zavižan mountain hut / OpenStreetMap building centroid
- Krasno & Velebit House ↗Velebit House visitor centre, official linked map
- Kuterevo Bear Refuge ↗Approximate refuge location, geolocated on-site Wikimedia photograph
- Smiljan · Nikola Tesla Memorial Centre ↗Memorial Centre / OpenStreetMap area centroid
- Gospić ↗Town centre / OpenStreetMap place node
- Perušić · Grabovača Cave Park ↗Official park location linked by park website
- Udbina & Krbava ↗Village centre / OpenStreetMap place node
- Lovinac & southern Lika ↗Village centre / OpenStreetMap place node
- Senj · the coastal gateway ↗Town centre / OpenStreetMap place node
- Zavratnica · beneath Velebit ↗Bay discovery pin / OpenStreetMap natural=bay node; NOT a driving destination
Map & typography
Map geography uses Natural Earth 1:10m land and boundary data, with an equirectangular projection at 44.67° N. Natural Earth map data is in the public domain ↗. The map is generalized for discovery, not navigation. The Velebit shading is illustrative; it is not a trail or surveyed boundary.
Place coordinates were checked against official park maps where available and public OpenStreetMap-derived place records. Detailed place sources ↗. Bay and mountain markers do not imply car access.
Fonts: Cormorant Garamond and DM Sans, used under the SIL Open Font License. Typography follows the live Završje.com reference: light Cormorant Garamond headings and DM Sans navigation and text.
Photographs are resized and converted to WebP, and may be cropped by the page layout. Adapted images retain the license shown with each credit.