Turkish House
The Turkish House was built close to the heart of the city market and attracts visitors thanks to its picturesque appearance. This appearance is reminiscent of the Orient. The building has a multicolour facade with windows created with eastern arches and ornaments of plants and geometric exemplars, arabesques and Arabic inscriptions. The reason behind this […]
Modello Palace
As Rijeka has always competed with the port of Trieste, this meant it should have its own Palazzo Modello, a model of the city’s monumental palaces built in the style of late Historicism, which today is the seat of the Rijeka City Library and the Circolo italiano di cultura. The project was designed by the […]
Ploech Palace
The luxurious city palace of Annibale Ploech, one of the four most important men connected to the torpedo works, was built in 1888 based on the design of the notable Rijeka architect, Giacomo Zammatti. Drawn together at the Stabilimento Tecnico Fiumano Company, Whitehead, Luppis, Ciotta and Ploech increased the city’s reputation by inventing the torpedo, […]
State Archives in Rijeka
In the 18th century, Baron Mihovil Androcha ordered the construction of a simple summer house in the middle of a vineyard and an olive grove on the hill just above the northern city walls. That villa then changed numerous notable owners, consuls, mayors and businessmen from the Orlando and Pasquale families, Andrija Ljudevit Adamić, John […]
St. George the Martyr’s Church
Along the back side of the parish office you can come to the oldest Trsat church–St. George the Martyrs. The access road is typically paved with sea pebbles, which was common up to the late 19th century. The present appearance of the church is the result of the reconstruction carried out in the 19th century, […]
Principia at Tarsatica
The passage under the Old Gate or the Roman Arch leads into the inner square, the Tarsatica Principia forum. Today, at the foot of the rear of the church of St. Fabian and Sebastian, there is still well-preserved masonry.. The Old Gate or the Roman Arch is not, as was assumed earlier, a Roman triumphal […]
Torpedo – Launch station
The launch station from the 1930s was a part of the closed torpedo factory. It is a testimony to the technical inventiveness of Rijeka during this period and at the same time an important landmark of the industrial heritage at a global level. The story about the torpedo factory started with an idea of Rijeka’s […]
City Hall
The building where the current City Hall operates is the former City Savings Bank building. Tenders for its design were officially and publicly invited in 1912, and the construction was completed at the very beginning of the First World War, in 1914. The building was erected as a residential and business structure. The architectural design […]
Casa rossa
The Casa rossa (Red House) was built before the people coming from the sea at the entrance to the Mrtvi kanal Channel in 1903. It was erected within the urban shaping of space between the main city market and the new theatre building. The space was created by land reclamation, which meant taking it from […]
Veneziana House and Dolac Street
The palace belonging to Robert Whitehead (inventor of the torpedo, together with Giovanni Luppis) was nominated a Venetian House thanks to its architectonic associations with the Venetian Gothic. It was built in 1888. Beside it, the palace in Dolac Street also includes elements of other past styles, such as High Renaissance and Viennese Baroque. The […]
