--> Opatija (in Italian Abbazia ) is a tourist city of Croatia, located at the west of Rijeka, in Istrie, at the bottom of bay of Kvarner, the foot of the snow-covered summits of the Ucka mount.

In its bosky bower, Opatija enjoys a soft Mediterranean climate, with the shelter of the cold winds.

The city is located at 110 km of Trieste (Italy), at 200 km of Zagreb and at 250 km of Venice (Italy).

History

It was formerly a very fashionable station in which, since the middle of the 19th century remained of the kings, the emperors, the aristocrats, the very rich people and the famous artists. It was called, the “Austrian Nice”. The first town hall goes back to 1840.

However the station of holiday was built after the doctor Juraj Matija Sporer suggested in 1859, the creation of a company for the exploitation with Opatija of the benefits of the stays to the sea for health. The preliminary draft envisaged only 120 villas of Master. The first two luxury hotels - the " Kvarner" and l'" Impérial" - opened in 1885.

The famous ballerina Isadora Duncan had appreciated it and there found the inspiration by observing the grace of the sheets of the palm trees “tremble with the wind of the morning”.

Tourism

• the church of the Annunciation, néo-romantic architecture, set up in 1906 by the bishop of Trieste
• the Saint-Jakov church, built on the basis of monastery old of Benedictines, mentioned as of 1439.
• Lungomare is a walk of edge of the sea, arranged as of 1900 and which extends from Preluka to Lovran on a distance of roughly 12 kilometers.
• the monument set up in the honor of Friedrich Julius Schuller
• the monument with the Madonna is a copy of a monument set up by the family of the counts de Kesselstatt to the memory of their son died tragically in 1891.
• the horticultural park of Saint-Jakov, extends on 3,64 hectares and shelters more than 160 exogenic species of plants coming from China, of Australia, of South America,
• the house of art " Juraj Matija Sporer" , is a space of exposures.
• the port, which saw the arrival of the navy of Italian war in December 1918 and the capitulation of the Italy in September 1943.
• the statue of the " Young lady with the mouette" of the sculptor Zvonko Because, placed opposite the sea since 1956, it became one of the symbols of the city.
• the theater and cinema of outdoor

Personalities related to this locality

• Leo Sternbach was born
• there is deceased there
• Theodor Billroth is deceased there

External bond

• Images of Opatija