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Interview: The World of Croatia with Jan Kincl and Regis Kattie

For the past few years, Croatia has been quickly gaining worldwide recognition as a party destination. With a gorgeous coastline that encompasses mountains and numerous islands with both sand and pebble beaches, festival promoters from Europe and the U.S. have recently sought out Croatia as a prime destination for electronic music festivals.

Although Croatia is becoming well-known for underground electronic music, there still is a limited amount of artists that come from this small country in the Balkans. Major festival promoters have flocked to Croatia and the festival scene continues to grow although the club scene is still quite dormant. The capital of Zagreb still only has one or two nightclubs that feature house and techno and during the summer everyone flocks to the coast and it can almost seem as nothing is really going on in the largest city.

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The Award Winning Dimensions Festival Brings Kraftwerk 3D, Moodymann, and More to Pula, Croatia

Electronic music parties and festivals are often known to take place in magnificent locations such as Ibiza, Malta as well as castle, fortresses or tropical locations such as BPM Festival in Playa Del Carmen (which is now taking place in Portugal) or SXM Festival in the Caribbean.

In the past few years the new hotspot has been Croatia with Cosmopop, Defected, Ultra, Dekmantel, and even Paxahau all playing host to music festivals in the small country of less than 5 million people. Amongst these popular Croatian festival destinations is Dimensions, an award-winning escape located in one of the most unique settings of this beautiful country facing the Adriatic Sea.

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The World’s Most Unique Festival Locations

Traena Festival in Norway. Source: Henrik Mundal Andreassen

Traena Festival in Norway. Source: Henrik Mundal Andreassen

In today’s over-saturated music market, we live in a world with more festivals than we can ever dream to attend. It therefore becomes important, when making the all-too-familiar choice of where to travel to next in the pursuit of good music, to focus not only on the acts billed but also on the uniqueness of the experience as provided by the festival surroundings themselves.

Long-running and debuting festivals alike are continuously striving to offer what others can’t: unique locations which in themselves become a selling point for anyone potentially making the trip. From castles to ore mines, idyllic beaches to the desert, we have listed below some of the most unique festival locations in the world. Read more