Duga Resa is located in Karlovac County and it consists of 29 settlements. According to the census in 2001., the town of Duga Resa had 12,114 residents. The city is exceptionally beautiful area of natural beauty with blue-green beauty, Mrežnica. There is also a hill Vinica with a walk path Tušmer that allows visitors pleasant walks and bike rides along the river and elevations of Vinica. It is especially important to note that the river Mrežnica offers certainly refreshing waterfalls during the summer months and the tourist office in the city offers the Indian canoes for rent to sail the river. Duga Resa is the history was first mentioned in 1380., and its name comes from the word "Resa" that occurs in traditional costumes, and the second derivation of the names occurs in the word "resina" which is a plant that grows in water. In 1873rd has been built the railway line which allows stronger economic growth of the city. In the town there is a folk open College Duga Resa, City Library ...and reading Duga Resa and folk College offers a cinema, theater and music programs and the organization of educational programs. It is especially important to note that in the 2008th college participated in the project challenges of employment in underdeveloped rural communities of Croatia financed from EU funds. Historical entity of the City of Duga Resa is the best preserved and most complete example of the industrial city of the late 19th and early 20th - century in Croatia, and is part of the European cultural heritage. The core of the City development is presented in the so-called Banjavčićev mlin that was used for the establishment of spinning and weaving factories. The founders and owners of the cotton industry were Viennese merchants Josef Jeursalem, Wilhelm Anninger, Siegmund Mendel who 1869th established a joint stock company and renamed the company in a joint-stock company domestic factories spinning and weaving cotton Duga Resa. With a factory were built all the supporting facilities of residential buildings for workers, officers and directors, as well as hospitals, casino, kindergarten, school, shop, post office and gendarmerie.