"Plitvice Lakes National Park". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
Plitvice Lakes National Park–Basic Information First permanent shelter at Plitvice Lakes have been constructed by officers of the Otočac Regiment in 1861/2 for rare chance travelers, who meet unexpectedly with that romantic but unknown, almost wild and insecure area. This was the way in which the first traveler's house was built in simple Swiss style, which served for a few decades for tourist and public purpose, until the construction of the first hotel inside villa "Devčićevac" in 1890.