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E-mail: info@cromaris.net
OpatijaOpatija can daily accommodate up to 6,000 guests – 4,000 in the hotels and villas, and 2,000 in private rooms or apartments.Most of the hotels in Opatija were built towards the end of the 19th century or at the beginning of the 20th. Being architecturally well preserved, they also offer all the comforts that modern guests expect. Where to go? Villa “Angiolina”, Park Angiolina built in 1844 by a patrician from Rijeka, merchant Higin Scarpa who named it after his late spouse Angiolina. In 1875. the villa was sold to Moravian count Victor Chorinsky. Besides the numerous friends and business partners of Scarpa family, villa hosted Croatian viceroy Josip Jelačić (1850) with his wife Sofia, and empress mother Marie Anne, a spouse of emperor Ferdinand I, who spent in Opatija "the whole balneal season" of year 1860. In 1882 Conut Chorinsky sells the villa to the Southern Railways Company from Vienna. More information: www.festivalopatija.hr Lungomare - this 12-km-long coastal promenade joins up the main points along the Opatija Riviera - Volosko, Opatija, Ičići, Ika and Lovran. Undisturbed by traffic, this walk along the sea front presents a wonderful opportunity to escape the stresses of everyday life. Construction of the promenade began in 1885, at the same time as Opatija’s first two hotels were being opened (The Kvarner in 1884, The Imperial in 1885), and was completed in 1889 when Opatija was declared a climatic health resort. In 1911, during the period of greatest expansion of tourism along the Riviera, the promenade was connected to the neighbouring city of Lovran. Along this path may be found monuments to some of the famous people who used to stay in Opatija, including the writer Henrik Sienkiewicz (above the harbour), doctor Theodor Billroth (on the wall of St. Jacob's church), and general Jozef Pilsudski (in the park in front of the "Juraj Šporer" arts pavilion). Mala Fortica and queen Elisabeth’s stone Karl Eitel Friedrich von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1839-1914) was elected prince of Romania in 1866, and proclaimed king in 1881, when he took the name of Carol I. He first came to Opatija in April 1896 and stayed in the Villa Angiolina together with his wife Elisabeth (1843-1916), a musician, painter and writer, also known by her literary name of Carmen Sylva. The Romanian royal couple continued to visit Opatija regularly until Carol’s death in 1914. Elisabeth, by birth princess zu Wied (and a friend of her namesake, Austrian empress Elisabeth), was to outlive her husband by only two years. During the Austrian era, two footpaths in Opatija were named after the Romanian king – these were the forest path König-Carol-Waldweg and the König-Carol-Promenade. After World War Two, the forest path was renamed as Zora, after a local cultural society that has played a significant role in the social and cultural life of Opatija since 1889. At the end of the 20th century, the forest path was given the name of Carmen Sylva, Romanian queen and wife of the forest path’s main sponsor. The belvedere on Queen Elisabeth’s Rock (Königin Elisabeth Fels) is locally known as Mala fortica. However, the plaque with the inscription Carmen Sylva Ruhe can be found above a stone bench beneath the belvedere. It seems that somewhere in the immediate vicinity once existed "Goethe’s bench", but today it can only be found in old guidebooks. Quite possibly it was located on a small elevation after the first curve past the Mala fortica. On a rock there, some marks are still visible of a plaque on which Goethe’s verses might once have been engraved: So your head and heart are buzzing? What do you want? He who no longer loves and no longer errs, should let himself be buried. Galerija fotografij
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