SPLIT SPLIT, Feb 24 (Hina) - The world's oldest ocean-going passenger ship and largest floating library, the Doulos, docked in the southern Croatian Adriatic port of Split on Tuesday morning.
SPLIT, Feb 24 (Hina) - The world's oldest ocean-going passenger ship
and largest floating library, the Doulos, docked in the southern
Croatian Adriatic port of Split on Tuesday morning.#L#
The ship arrived from Kotor, Montenegro, and will stay in Split for
two weeks. The ship's library boasts 6,000 books and will be open to
public every day.
The Doulos, two years younger than the Titanic, is owned by a
non-governmental Christian charity based in Germany. Its purpose is to
promote education and understanding among nations through a programme
of cultural exchange and its own library.
Over the last 25 years, the Doulos has been visited by more than 17
million people. Croatia is the 95th country it is visiting and Split
is the 497th port it has entered.
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