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TOURIST TRADITION

More than 160 years in Kvarner

There are two qualities that a tourist destination cannot acquire quickly and efficiently, no matter how original and varied its facilities are. These are natural resources and tradition. Numerous members of the Habsburg dynasty used to spend their winter and summer holidays here, so it is to them that the development of exclusive tourist destinations is linked, for instance in Opatija -  in 1844. received its first summer resort, Villa Angiolina. This was a present that the famous Rijeka patrician, Iginio Scarpa, gave to his wife. The villa is surrounded by a marvellous, carefully cultivated garden with exotic plants that were brought from all over the world by captains, Scarpa’s friends. On 27th March 1884, between Villa Angiolina and St. James’ church the first hotel on the eastern side of the Adriatic was opened - hotel «Kvarner». One year later, in 1885, the first tourist came to visit Mali Lošinj. It was Dr. Conrad Clar, a renowned Austrian physician who brought his sick son there. The child got well soon, and the reputation of Mali Lošinj as a health resort grew rapidly. While king Franz Joseph was fond of Opatija, his brother,  Archduke Joseph, preferred Crikvenica, where the first wooden beach was built in 1888, followed by the Archduchess Clotilda’s hotel.
In the Kvarner Guests Golden Book are also registered the Emperor and king Franz Joseph I, the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, the Belgian princess Stefani, the German emperor William II, the Italian king Vittorio Emanuele III, the ballerina Isadora Duncan, the composer Gustav Mahler, the actress Simone Signoret, the writers Anton Čehov and Henrik Sienkiewicz…
In 1936 the English king Eduard VIII decided to escape from his state obligations and court intrigues and set sail to Rab with his vessel. In the Bay Kandarola, hidden from from curious eyes, he entered the sea completely naked with his companion Wallis. Although the first beach for nudists had been opened in Rab even two years before the king’s arrival, this moment was soon acknowledged as the beginning of naturism in Rab.

THE OPATIJA RIVIERA - 165 years
In 1844, the Rijeka patrician I. Scarpa built a summer resort for his beloved wife Angiolina which soon became the meeting point of numerous guests. The construction of many hotels followed.(Opatija, Lovran, Medveja, Mošćenička Draga, Ičići, Ika, Volosko, Matulji)
   
THE CRIKVENICA RIVIERA - 121 years of tourism

In 1888, under the influence of the development of medical science and the proven curative properties of the sea coast, the progressive inhabitants of Crikvenica built their first public bathing resort.
(Crikvenica, Selce, Jadranovo, Dramalj, Drivenik, Grižane, Bribir)
   
RIVIJERA NOVI VINODOLSKI - 131 years of tourism

In 1878 the Merzljak family built the first wooden bathing resort in Novi Vinodolski.
(Novi Vinodolski, Povile, Klenovica)
   

ISLAND OF RAB - 120 years of tourism

On 23rd April 1889 Prof. Schrroter and Prof. Froschauf (Austria) submitted a written proposal to the Head of the Rab Municipality suggesting a more intensive development of tourism on the island, the proposal was accepted that same year by the Municipal Council.
(Rab, Kampor, Lopar, Supetarska Draga, Barbat, Banjol)
   

ISLAND OF LOŠINJ - 124 years of tourism

The first to arrive in Mali Lošinj as a tourist, in 1885, was Dr Conrad Clar (Austria) with his sick son. He found a comfortable room and good food, and his son’s condition improved quickly after the climatic treatment there.
(Nerezine, Mali Lošinj, Veli Lošinj)
   

ISLAND OF KRK - 112 years of tourism

In February 1897 the first Statute of the tourist association then called "Societa' d' abbellimento di Veglia" (Society for Krk Embellishment) was officially approved .
(Omišalj, Njivice, Malinska, Krk, Punat, Stara Baška, Baška, Vrbnik, Dobrinj, Klimno)
   

ISLAND OF CRES - 164 years of tourism

The first tourist visitors to town Cres were recorded in June 1845, when some two hundred excursionist arrived by steamship from Rijeka. The first Cres hotel, "Miramar", was opened by the end of the 19th century.
(Cres, Osor, Punta Križa, Valun, Lubenice, Martinšćica)
   

GORSKI KOTAR - 116 years of tourism

In 1893 the Tourist Traffic Committee was established in Fužine.
(Čabar, Delnice, Fužine, Lokve, Ravna Gora, Skrad, Vrbovsko, Mrkopalj)
   

The first modern hotel on the eastern coast of the Adriatic (1884)
- Hotel Kvarner, Opatija
   

 The Guests Golden Book


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