Croatia guest of honor at 21st Buda Castle Wine festival

Croatia is the guest of honor this year of the wine festival which opened for the 21st time at the Buda Castle on Wednesday. The five-day festival offers wines from nearly 200 cellars throughout the country. Croatia will showcase as many as 120 wines at the festival, the most ever featured by any guest country.

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If you have not visited Croatia this summer, it is not too late to visit it now. It is a beautiful country, especially in autumn. Here is one review from Tourism Review:

"Until recently, Croatia was a country on the fringes of Europe. It was only in 1991 that it declared its independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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But Croatia has come a long way since those early days of independence. It is now an acceding state of the European Union, will full membership expected by July 2013. And after heavy investment in infrastructure and tourism in the last two decades, it has also emerged as of Europe’s leading tourist destinations. Croatia is now ranked the 18th most popular tourist destination in the world, and Cosmos holidays alone have just celebrated their 4000th Croatia customer!