Dramalj is a small coastal tourist settlement in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in Croatia, located right next to Crikvenica, with which it is also administratively connected. The two places are linked by a well-maintained coastal promenade that stretches for several kilometers along the sea and offers pleasant views of the Kvarner coast. Today, approximately 1,500 residents live in Dramalj, with the majo ...

Lovran is a small town situated on the eastern rough slopes of the Ucka mountain. This is a place with a rich past and with a long tourism tradition. The Lovran was named after the laurel tree that grows in the town and its surroundings. Lovran has preserved its beautiful historic core, built according the medievan urban conception. The tourism developed on the verge of the 20th century because of the ...

The small Holy Trinity Church located above the harbour is the only remaining of three ancient graveyard chapels. The old cemetery park is an archaeological site for the Church of Saint Trinity from the 13th century. The church was built in Romanesque stlye with a portico (Istrian Lopica). According to sources it's the oldest church in the Kvarner Riviera. Of the three churches that long surrounded the ...

The Church of the Annunciation is also known among the locals of Opatija as the German Church. It is one of the most beautiful parts of the Opatija panorama in the area of Nova cesta Street, which is located in the upper part of the city. The external beauty of the church and its impressiveness adorns Opatija and gives it the shape of a complete city. The parish church is most easily accessible by stai ...

Saint James's Church is situated on the area of the Benedictine Abbey which gave its name to Opatija. Most probably built in 1420, as a colony of Benedictine refugees from the Friulian monastery of Saint Peter in Rozac, the whole settlement will late be named after this abbey. Today very little has been preserved of its original appearance: in 1506 abbot Simun reconstructed or built the church, accordin ...