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20 - 22 September 2012, Opatija, Croatia
About Opatija
Opatija, often called the pearl of the Adriatic, is one of Croatia’s most famous destinations, boasting a tradition of
welcoming visitors dating back more than 160 years. Located at the edge of the Mediterranean, on the slopes of
Mount Učka gently descending towards the coast of Kvarner Bay, Opatija with its local climate, beautiful architecture,
quality hotels and luxurious, well-tended parks and promenades, offers plenty of possibilities for a pleasant
stay throughout the year. The notable person who first discovered the magic of Opatija was Iginio Scarpa, a merchant
from Rijeka who built his holiday home here in 1844 and named it the Villa Angiolina after his late wife. This
event marked the beginning of tourism in Opatija.
After that, Opatija started intensely developing under the supervision of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Director
of the Austrian Southern Railway Company Friedrich Schüler and its shareholders wanted to improve passenger
traffic to the south. After choosing Opatija as the region’s most promising destination, they started building the
first hotel in this new bathing and climatic health resort, advertising it widely as the “Austrian Nice”.
Several important facilities were built alongside the first hotel: a pavilion with indoor pool for warm sea baths, a
bathing place with separate areas for ladies and gentlemen, and the 12-kilometre-long coastal promenade from
Volosko to Opatija and further to Lovran. The hotel was opened on the 27th March 1884. Its original name was
Hotel Quarnero, and it offered its visitors 60 rooms.
The second hotel that was built in Opatija after the Quarnero was the Hotel Kronprinzessin Stephanie. In 1885,
the Austrian Southern Railway Company organised the first congress of balneologists in Opatija, during which
the decision was made to declare Opatija a climatic health resort, which was officially done in 1889. Some of the
Monarchy’s most eminent physicians opened their sanatoriums in Opatija; numerous promenades and bathing
places were being built. This all turned Opatija into one of Europe’s most important health resorts of the 19th and
the first half of the 20th century, alongside Nice, Karlovy Vary, Cannes and Biarritz. Kings and emperors, writers,
philosophers, poets and composers used to stay here – let us mention some of them: the emperors Franz Joseph
and William II, the queen of Romania Elisabeth who used to publish poems under the pseudonym of Carmen Sylva,
then the empress Sissi, the writers A. P. Chekhov and James Joyce, the ballet dancer Isadora Duncan, and the
composers Gustav Mahler and Giacomo Puccini. To see and be seen – this was the motto for those who came to
Opatija.
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