The visit will focus on cooperation on various subjects such as energy and environment, food products, IT, health, architecture, film, children’s theatre and archaeology. 
 

The Queen and The Prince Consort will pay visits at Danish companies in Croatia and participate in both business and cultural arrangements. HM The Queen will attend the opening of a “Regional Diabetes Forum” with special focus on health economics. HRH The Prince Consort will deliver a speech at the business forum in connection with the state visit. More than 30 Danish companies and industrial organizations take part in the business forum. The Queen and The Prince Consort will take part in activities concerning the Danish archaeologist Ejnar Dyggve, who took part in the extensive excavations of the historic town Salona near Split, and thereby put a focus on a substantial Danish contribution to the preservation of the common European cultural heritage.

Croatia became independent in 1991 and is now the largest Danish export market in the West Balkans.

PROGRAMME

Tuesday, 21 October

 

Zagreb

 

The Queen and The Prince Consort’s programme

Official welcome at the Presidential Palace
15.45
The Queen and The Prince Consort arrive at the Presidential Palace and are greeted by the President and First Lady. 
The national anthems are played, after which the guard of honour is inspected. This is followed by official photographing, after which The Queen and The Prince Consort meet with the President and First Lady. 

Meeting with the parliament speaker
16.40
The Queen and The Prince Consort meet with the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, Josip Leko, in the parliament building. 

Visit at the Church of St. Mark
17.00
The Queen and The Prince Consort visit the Church of St. Mark. The church’s roof is decorated with coats of arms from Croatia, Dalmatia, Slavonia and Zagreb, and in the church are sculptures by the Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović. 

State banquet
19.55
The Queen and The Prince Consort participate in the state banquet in the Presidential Palace. In connection with the banquet, there will be official speeches by H.E. the President and HM The Queen.
 

Wednesday, 22 October

Zagreb

HM The Queen’s programme

Visit at Ethnographic Museum 
09.25
The Queen visits the Ethnographic Museum, which was founded in 1919. During the visit, The Queen will be shown around the exhibit on the 1st floor, which deals with traditional Croatian textiles and attire.

Opening of Regional Diabetes Forum 
11.00
The Queen participates in the opening of Regional Diabetes Forum, which has a special focus on health economics, including the economic effects of diabetes and diabetes control. During the opening, The Queen will deliver a speech. 

Opening of children’s theatre performance in Kazalište Mala Scena
15.00
The Queen attends an abbreviated premiere of the newly-written theatre piece “Why me?”, which is produced in collaboration with the Danish children’s theatre “Passepartout”. The Queen gets the opportunity to greet some of the directors and actors at the end of the premiere.

HRH The Prince Consort’s programme

Opening of Danish-Croatian business forum
09.25
The Prince Consort participates in the opening of a Danish-Croatian business forum, where more than 30 Danish companies and industrial organizations take part. 

Visit at the architectural symposium “Transformations”
14.00. 
The Prince Consort attends the conclusion of the symposium “Transformations”, which deals with the significance of architecture policy in Denmark and Croatia with special focus on development of cities and transformation of city quarters. 

Visit at architecture exhibition in Gliptoteka
15.00
The Prince Consort is shown the exhibition “Sådan levede vi” (“We lived like this”), which deals with the physical and urban policy settings for the build-up of the Danish welfare state.

The Queen and The Prince Consort’s programme

Visit at Xellia Pharmaceuticals
12.00
The Queen and The Prince Consort visit the Danish high-technology company Xellia Pharmaceutical’s newly-establish branch, which is focused on the development of antibiotics against multiresistant bacteria. During the visit, The Queen and The Prince Consort will, among other things, inspect a laboratory and be told about the company’s history and Scandinavian heritage.

Business Luncheon 
12.45
The Queen and The Prince Consort participate in a business luncheon at The Westin Zagreb with the goal of strengthening the interest in Danish-Croatian business cooperation.

Visit in Zagreb’s Cathedral 
14.30
The Queen and The Prince Consort get a tour of the cathedral, called the “Cathedral of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary”, which is Croatia’s largest Roman Catholic church and was constructed between the 11th and 15th centuries.  

Opening of Zagreb Film Festival
17.00
The Queen and The Prince Consort will attend the opening of Zagreb Film Festival and attend a showing of a short film. 

Reciprocal dinner
20.00
The Queen and The Prince Consort hold a reciprocal dinner at Hotel Esplanade. 
 

Thursday, 23 October

Koprivnica

The Queen and The Prince Consort’s programme 

Visit at Koprivnica’s city hall
10.30
The Queen and The Prince Consort visit the city hall and are shown an exhibition of naïve art, which the city of Koprivnica has a long-standing tradition of. The Queen and The Prince Consort also visit the Danish exhibition “The Good Day”, which consists of contributions from Danish and Croatian city planners, architects and artists. 

Visit at Carlsberg 
11.10
The Queen and The Prince Consort visit Carlsberg Croatia and, during the visit, get a presentation of the company and a tour of the production facilities. 

Visit at Hartmann
11.50
The Queen and The Prince Consort visit Hartmann, which is a Danish company that produces egg cartons. During the visit, The Queen and The Prince Consort inspect the production hall and visit a workshop where blind and partially-sighted participants decorate eggs made of moulded cardboard packaging.  

Luncheon with Koprivnica’s mayor
12.35
Koprivnica’s mayor Vesna Želježnjak will host a luncheon for The Queen and The Prince Consort.
 

Friday, 24 October

Split

The Queen and The Prince Consort’s programme

Opening of the exhibition “Ejnar Dyggve” 
10.00
The Queen participates in the opening of the exhibition “Ejnar Dyggve” in the old city hall in Split. The Danish archaeologist Ejnar Dyggve took part in the extensive excavations of the historic town Salona near Split. The Queen and the Prince Consort also attend a signing ceremony that marks the cultural heritage cooperation between Denmark and Croatia.  

Tour around Diocletian’s Palace
11.00
The Queen and The Prince Consort visit Diocletian’s palace, which was built around the year 305 as a retirement domicile for the emperor Diocletian. The palace has appeared on UNESCO’s World Heritage List since 1979. 

Press conference at the Meštrović gallery
12.15
The Queen and The Prince Consort visit the former private home and current gallery of the Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović and afterwards hold a concluding press conference for Danish and Croatian media.

Cultural Luncheon at the Meštrović gallery
13.15
H.E. the Danish Ambassador Poul Erik Dam Kristensen will host a luncheon for The Queen and The Prince Consort and Danish and Croatian cultural personages. 

HM The Queen’s programme

Visit at Salona
14.45
The Queen inspects the remains of the ancient city Salona, which was the Roman province Dalmatia’s one-time capital.

Speech at the opening of the exhibition “Ejnar Dyggve”

Her Majesty The Queen's Speech

at the opening of the exhibition “Ejnar Dyggve” 

on 24 October 2014 in Split, Croatia

 

It is a great pleasure for the Prince Consort and me to be here in Split. We visited this beautiful and historic city once before in 1977. The beauty of the landscape, ocean and city made a great impression on us then.
 

I would also like to thank you for your hospitality and friendliness which has not changed since our last visit.

The exhibition which opens here today is based upon and comprises of the archives of Dr. Ejnar Dyggve and promises to be of great significance. 

Ejnar Dyggve trained as an architect, but it was as an archaeologist he became famous. He travelled throughout Europe and took part in excavations, cataloguing and documenting the temples and cities of the past. He worked in Greece and Macedonia, but most importantly he worked here in Dalmatia. 

The archive consists of his notes and sketches from excavations and travels in the area. He did his elaborate documentation before a period of rapid expansion of cities and buildings. Therefore, his archives are a unique source of knowledge about the Roman buildings and cities in Dalmatia.

Ejnar Dyggve was also a talented artist. His sketches are beautiful and meticulous and make his documents come truly alive. In fact, his works are vivid and in a way very human – with notes scribbled here and there and everywhere.

When he returned to Denmark he took part in excavations of some of our most important historical sites. From his work in the south of Europe, he brought with him a deep understanding of historic sites of power – and he enriched our understanding of how power is shown and symbolised in historic buildings. 

The presentation and passing on of knowledge was crucial for Dyggve, and he wrote a number of books and articles on architecture and archaeology. I am sure it would please him enormously to know that his work is now being presented to the public and - with help of modern technology - made available to everybody. 

I am very pleased that Croatian and Danish authorities and professionals will be working together on this. It is wonderful that the works of Ejnar Dyggve can now be enjoyed by the greater public. 

Thank you very much for your commitment to pass on knowledge - in exhibitions, among professionals and online. I wish you every success, hoping that this exhibition will deepen the interest of the general public in Croatia’s past. 

I hereby declare open the exhibition ”EJNAR DYGGVE/Researches in Dalmatia”.