HRT organised the Dora contest to select the Croatian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 , held in Riga , Latvia on 24 May 2003 . This was the 11th edition of Dora , held in Opatija . The national contest consisted of two televised semi-finals with 12 songs each held on 7 and 8 March 2003 . The top six songs from each semi-final , as voted by the public through televote , passed through to the grand final held on 9 March . The initial 24 songs which competed in the semi-finals came from a public call for submissions from songwriters and composers
Eurovision Song Contest 2003
Eurovision Song Contest 2003
Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003