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 […]

Schittar and Milcenich-Cerniak houses

When Giovanni Schittar’s two floored house on Korzo became a three floored house in 1905, its new facade smiled at Korzo in Art Nouveau style. This was a metaphorical transformation of the street facade of the building into a vertical garden. In the form of shallow reliefs, climbing roses blossomed on the facade, olive branches and climbing […]

Palace of the former sugar plant

The sugar refinery was the first and oldest industrial plant in Rijeka. It was founded in 1750 and used for processing of sugarcane and raw sugar. It was located on the sea shore and the raw material used to be unloaded from sailing boats in front of the factory’s entrance. In 1786 a new administrative […]

Former Governor’s Palace

The construction of the Governor’s Palace began in 1892 at the time of the Governor Lajos Batthyány and based on the design of one of the leading Hungarian architects of the time, Alajos Hauszmann, who had already proved himself on the project of the King’s Palace and the Parliament building in Budapest. On a surface […]

Trsat Castle

The Trsat Castle represents a strategically embossed lookout on a hill 138 meters above sea level dominating Rijeka. It was mentioned as a parochial centre for the first time in 1288. At this same site there was a Liburnian observation post from prehistoric times, used for monitoring the roads leading from the hinterland to the […]

Žurkovo – Kostrena, Glavanovo…

Thanks to a shallow sea entrance, and green zone above the beach where is possible to find shelter from the sun, this pebble beach is ideal for families with children. Its quietness and green zone are also attractive for the more senior visitors. It has shower facilities too.

Kostanj

The city beach primarily intended for disabled users. Swimmers are looked after by trained lifeguards, the beach is surrounded by a floating barrier, equipped for water basketball, and it has access to the sea for disabled people, catering facilities, showers, parking spaces and a sanitary facility suitable for disabled persons. It is also a Blue […]

Preluk

Because of the wind that blows in the early morning, this beach is a real paradise for windsurfers and yachtsmen. It has an entrance for smaller vessels from the land. The beach has shower and sanitary facilities.