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Opatija

As well as its road connection to Lovran, Ičići and Ika, Opatija also has a 12 kilometre-long coastal promenade which ends in Volosko and where memorials have been erected to famous people who have stayed in Opatija.

The construction of the promenade started in the second half of the 19th century, when the first hotels opened there. Well-landscaped parks are one of the defining features of Opatija. The city is approximately 500 kilometres away from Milan, Vienna and Munich which, for visitors from Central Europe, makes Opatija their closest access to warm sea; it is also at the centre of the riviera with the longest tradition of Croatian tourism. You can learn all about the beginnings of tourism in this part of Europe in the Croatian Museum of Tourism, located mainly in Opatija’s oldest villa ‘Angiolina’, in the centre of the park with the same name.