Ad Turres Day

In 2007, Crikvenica started hosting this cultural-educational event as a way of celebrating the area's rich architectural heritage. Originally named "Antiquity Night", the event later got its present name after recent archaeological research showed that Ad Turres was the name for Crikvenica in Roman times, and that the history of the town dates back more than 2,000 years. The event evokes Roman times in a vivid, picturesque way, so that visitors can re-experience the atmosphere of ancient Crikvenica. It presents many aspects of everyday Roman life (clay-processing, clothes, jewellery, hairstyles, perfumes, music, dance, food and drinks) and traditional crafts (pottery, basket-making, stone masonry, blacksmith's craft, producing frescoes and mosaics etc.). The festival also includes interesting lectures and educational workshops for adults and children (making laurel wreaths, painting fabric, filling amphorae with wine, clay-modelling, making mosaics and drawings with motifs from ancient times, and playing games from that era). Visitors also have the opportunity to enjoy specialities of the ancient gastronomy prepared to original recipes.