The resting places and testimonies to the existence of many noted Serbs lie beneath Hermann Bollé’s magnificent gloriette in Karlovac

Despite the great contributions of Serbs to Karlovac and Croatia, only Nikola Tesla, Dr. Gajo Petrović and Petar Preradović have public areas named after them in the city on four rivers

The strip of land along Korana, the most valuable land in Karlovac today and the living room of Karlovac natives and excursionists, was once owned by the famed Ilić family. One of its last descendants, retired civil engineer Milutin Ilić, accompanied us on a walk through this area, recalling the history of this powerful family, about which the citizens of Karlovac know too little today

We spent the day with the residents of the most northerly place in Lika, where Milutin Tesla, the father of the famous inventor, attended the seminary

“The years I spent in Karlovac were, in a way, perhaps the unhappiest of my life. My parents lived a hundred kilometers away, in Gospić, …

Due to the nonpayment of the annual grave lease, the burial plot of the mother of partisan fighter Herta Turza – who, at the age of 22, was the first communist to be executed in Croatia – is on offer at the Jewish Cemetery in Karlovac

The residents of the Drašković Palace in Karlovac – a building protected as cultural heritage that was already decayed – fear that their roofs will completely cave in after the earthquake

People here are resilient. They have learned to live modestly, used to troubles, a middle-aged Petrinja citizen who lost his house in the earthquake tells us