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 […]