If you like the idea of spending the most romantic day of the year, Valentine’s Day, in the most romantic place, make a timely reservation to stay at Zagreb’s Phoenix Hotel, which has been voted the most romantic hotel in Croatia by the tourism magazine Luxury Travel Guide.

The carnival season is always a time for masked ribaldry, and Zagreb’s Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall has been known for putting together one of the best masked balls – Lisinski Dances under Masks. This charity event will take place on February 9th this year.

Amidst everything that the city has to offer during the event-packed project Advent in Zagreb, we would like to mention two very interesting programmes: Fooling Around by the Funicular and Skiing at Stross, which will end on the 10th and the 7th of January, respectively. Before they come to an end, they will offer entertainment one should not miss on their winter visit to Zagreb.

Since 2006, at the beginning of each year, Zagreb has been welcoming the world’s most renowned tennis players. This winter, between the 2nd and the 10th of February, it will be host to numerous male tennis stars who traditionally participate in the PBZ Zagreb Indoors, a tournament the organizers call “a tournament that is much more than the tournament itself” due to various concurrent events.

On March 15th and 16th, Zagreb’s Regent Esplanade Hotel will be host to a large International wine tourism conference, which will bring together more than 300 wine, gastronomy and tourism experts from 30 countries around the globe.

The renowned International Documentary Film Festival, ZagrebDox 2013, will introduce many novelties this year and, according to organizers, it will be better than ever. Zagreb is the place to be between February 24th and March 3rd if you wish to attend screenings of some of the best current documentary films in the world, a large pitching forum and numerous concurrent workshops. The number of lecturers will also be far greater this year than ever before.

Over the last years, numerous global media, including the British Guardian, have been “discovering” Zagreb, a blooming tourist destination which allures visitors with the promise of a different kind of holiday. According to journalists at The Guardian, Zagreb is a city different from others, and as such it will particularly fascinate those who are looking for alternative types of fun and entertainment.

The Ethnographic Museum will be taken over by toys until the end of May. They will be presented in four different exhibitions – Toys from the Croatian Heritage, From the World of Toys, Polish Traditional Toys, and Toys Have a Heart. The entire project has been titled “The World of Toys”, and apart from all of the exhibits, the visitors will also have an opportunity to enjoy numerous workshops and concurrent toy-related events.