News : The list of Croatia's Blue Flag beaches for 2010 published
News homeToday the Foundation for Environmental Education, the organization awarding the prestigious blue flag titles to the world's best environmentally friendly beaches published its 2010 list for the Northern Hemisphere.
For Croatia, there are both new and dropped entries in the Blue Flag awarded group of beaches.
Rijeka entered its first beach, just like Dramalj, Brzac (near Malinska) and Podgora. Split stressed its presence with two more beaches in the town and one more next to it (Stobreč), and also, Camp Vira near Hvar (town) helped Hvar Island to step up from one to two blue flag beaches.
There are several beaches on Makarska's Riviera that lost their blue flags for 2010: Brela's three beaches, Makarska's main beach, Tučepi's major beach are out of the list, similarly to Komiža's main beach, Mandre's Mala Mandra and Fažana's Children's Playground Beach.
Our site, CroaRiva has a map of the blue flag beaches in Croatia with the exact locations of these fine beaches.
Published: June 07, 2010 21:21 (CET)
Source: Blue Flag Programme
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