The 3^rd European confectionery and ice-cream congress Interslast will be held at the Terme Tuhelj hotel. Interslast is without a doubt a very significant event for the regional confectionery industry. The objectives of the congress include intensification of professional education and informing of confectioners, and networking within the sector. The congress will feature lectures and workshops on the topic of sweet delicacies prepared in the County of Međimurje and recipes dating from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the Bled cream cakes, chocolate, pralines, štrukle (boiled or roasted homemade pastry), etc. (www.interslast.eu)

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Do not miss the opportunity to visit the best Croatian restaurants during the most delicious week of the year (www.tjedanrestorana.com)!

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If San Sebastián, the center of the world avantgarde cuisine movement and the town with the greatest number of Michelin stars in the world by population size, is a town that gourmets from around the world visit with special respect, then the time when Gastronomica is held in this town is the time of the year when it becomes the absolute center of gastronomy. Lately, Gastronomica has been increasingly recognized as the most significant event of this kind in the world. (www.sansebastiangastronomika.com).

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Kestenijada - an October festival celebrating the chestnut harvest. It was first organized a long time ago when a grandmother named Jela used to greet generations of students with packets full of fragrant chestnuts roasted on her old chestnut roasting stove in front of the Church of St. Nicholas. In only ten years, a small gathering by the chestnut roasting stove to enjoy roasted chestnuts and young wine has grown into a widely known three-day event visited by more than 20,000 visitors. During the Chestnut Festival, a train locally known as Kesten cug (The Chestnut Train) starts operating, departing from Zagreb. The festival also includes organized visits to chestnut forests. The visitors can enjoy a selection of salty and sweet local products made from this valuable fruit, various exhibitions and presentations of forgotten crafts and trades, musical and dance performances, horse-drawn carriage rides, tourist train rides or a walk through the streets and alleys of Kostajnica enveloped in the fragrance of roasted chestnuts.

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Everybody knows that the life in Punat has always been associated with olives. The Punat olive oil is well-known and highly valued, even outside Croatia. As part of this year’s Days of Olives event, which will take place from October 3-12, 2014, you will have a chance to take part in olive-picking as well as visit some of the Punta restaurants and enjoy the olive-based delicacies. You will be able to savor the oils and other olive-based culinary delicacies, as well as visit an exhibition of handiwork and souvenirs made from olive wood (www.punat.hr).

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As usual, on the occasion of the traditional fall event called the Mushroom Picking in Stubaki (or locally Gljivarenje v Stubakima), the special excursion train called Glivarski cug (The Mushroom Train) will start operating. After the train arrives in Stubičke Toplice, bus transport to Pile will be organized. After the visitors gather at the Pile parking lot, they will have an opportunity to choose between joining an organized walk through the neighboring woods and taking a walk through the woods by themselves to pick various types of mushrooms. After the visitors return from the woods, a professional determination of the picked mushrooms and tasting of the mushroom stew will take place along the Sljemenska Road. All participants in the mushroom harvest can contribute the edible mushrooms that they picked to be used in the preparation of the stew. This is an excellent opportunity for all excursionists to spend beautiful moments in nature and get acquainted with the amazing world of mushrooms.

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The central event organized as part of the pumpkin festival locally known as Bučijada is a large fair, including both exhibition and sale of pumpkins, accompanied by a display of dishes prepared from this delicious fruit and numerous eco-ethno products, such as the pumpkin oil. The festival will feature educational workshops and stage performances, an eco-garden with pumpkins for children, a pumpkin-carriage ride, presentation of folk traditions, a pumpkin museum, exhibitions of pumpkin cakes, a visit to the zoo with domestic animals and a traditional blockhouse, and all the visitors will have a chance to taste the rich gastronomic offer accompanied by musical bands. The entire program will take place at the town market called Maznica, at Moslavačka Street, King Tomislav Street and Vladimir Nazor Square in the center of Ivanić Grad. At the end of the Pumpkin Festival, the largest, the smallest and the most distinct pumpkin will be selected. The best salty and sweet pumpkin strudel and the most beautifully decorated stand will also be selected. In addition to private transport, the visitors will have an opportunity to ride on the popular excursion train called Bučko-express (The Pumpkin Express) departing from the Zagreb Central Train Station.

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The international prosciutto fair ISAP is a recognizable event which has grown into a regional tradition. It has been organized for the 8^th time in a row by the Municipality of Tinjan (The Municipality of the Istrian Prosciutto of 2006) in cooperation with the Association of Istrian Prosciutto Producers and the County of Istria. ISAP gathers an increasing number of exhibitors from various European countries each year. Last year, the fair was visited by more than 25,000 visitors, and more than 30 producers of prosciutto from Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain and Austria participated in the fair.

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Marunada - a festival of marrons featuring all-day musical and entertainment program in the center of Lovran accompanied by an offer of marrons (a special type of chestnuts) as well as a selection of cakes and other sweet delicacies prepared from marrons, homemade dishes, dishes with marrons, marron honey, honey liquor with marrons, etc.

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One of the main goals of this event is to get better acquainted with the world of mushrooms and raise the awareness of the importance of protecting, proper harvesting and recognizing the numerous mushroom species, as well as the significance of mushrooms as food items. This gathering of Croatian, Slovenian and Italian mushroom pickers will feature a rich and attractive exhibition displaying numerous mushroom specimens, a competition in mushroom picking and presentation of this year's winners. The careful and professional mushroom harvest will result in the preparation of a stew and tasting of various other dishes.

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The season of the most precious type of truffles, the white truffle, peaks in October when a festival called Tuberfest is organized in Livade, a well-known truffles center near Motovun. Tuberfest is a several-day festival celebrating this unparalleled king of taste. And, since good food is best complemented with good wine, the Tuberfest features tasting of wines from renowned Istrian cellars, herbal brandies and authentic products such as cheese, honey and olive oil. Each year, the Champion of the Season – the most beautiful and largest white truffle - is selected. This is a huge challenge since the largest truffle in the world was found in 1999 in Northwestern Istria, near Buje. It weighed 1.31 kg and earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records by its size!

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