Original scientific paper
The Factors of the Development of Health and Cultural Tourism in Bjelovar Until 1941
Mira Kolar-Dimitrijević
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Abstract
Bjelovar may be approached from all sides. It may be reached from the rivers Drava and Sava, from the regions of Prigorje and Moslavina. Such location has determined also its position as the centre of the continental tourism of the Bjelovar-Bilogora County, the Koprivnica-Križevci County and the Zagreb County. Health and cultural (i.e. economic) tourism has become the mainstay of its influence on the surroundings, which differed through time in shape and content, depending on the people who had lived and worked there in the period 1756–1941. Since the military age, when only the military elite had been involved in this development, after 1873, the bourgeois society became stronger and, thanks to Dr. Milan Rojc and other officials, coming from as far as the Croatian Littoral, who were stationed in Bjelovar, but also to wealthy tradesmen, social life broadened, becoming thereby more and more bourgeois and massive. This progress was, naturally, very slow and gradual. The topic is comprehensive and rich in events and protagonists.
Keywords
Bjelovar; tourism; health care; ecology
Hrčak ID:
91574
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Publication date:
23.10.2012.
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