Rijeka – Central Croatia, is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia. In Primorje-Gorski Kotar County on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea. Historically, because of its strategic position and its excellent deep-water port, the city was fiercely contested. Mostly importantly, between the Holy Roman Empire, Italy and Croatia, changing rulers and demographics many times over centuries.
Rijeka Carnival Event
The Rijeka Carnival (Croatian: Riječki karneval) is held each year before Lent (between late January and early March). Established in 1982, it is one of the biggest carnivals in Croatia. The mayor of Rijeka gives the symbolic key of the city to Meštar Toni who is “the maestro” of the carnival. He becomes the mayor of the city during the carnival. But, this is only figuratively. Same day, there is an election of the carnival queen. As all the cities around Rijeka have their own events during the carnival time, Queen and Meštar Toni are attending most of them.
Every year the Carnival charity ball is live in the Governor’s palace in Rijeka. In attendance are local politicians, people from sport and media life, as well as a number of ambassadors.
The weekend before the main event there are two other events. One is Rally Paris–Bakar (after the Dakar Rally). The start is a part of Rijeka called Paris after the restaurant located there, and the end is in city of Bakar. All of the participants of the rally wear masks, and the cars are mostly modified old cars. The other event is the children’s carnival. It takes places like the main one, on Rijeka’s main walkway Korzo.
Ancient City and things to see in Rijeka
Trsat Castle – Rijeka – Croatia, goes back as far as 799, is an ideal place for a walk, a coffee and sightseeing.
After passing under the City Tower, the passable tower of the former main city gate, through which you enter medieval Rijeka from the direction of the coast. You find yourself within the area of Rijeka’s Old Town. On the area of today’s Kobler Square, Placa spread out, once much smaller in area, more precisely narrower, the communal center of the walled medieval city.
The north city Rijeka, clearly dominated by the nobleman’s castle. In the east the main folk church with a cemetery. on the west by a spacious monastic cloister., Here in the south, near the pier and the market square at the foot of the city walls, is the secular heart of the city. This is where the people of Rijeka meet to listen to the proclamations of the municipal messenger. Is also an are used to buy and sell, outdoors or in shops located on the ground floors of houses.
Rijeka
Torpedo Factory in 1875. is the world’s first torpedo factory.
Since 1700, Rijeka Resolution Square is a playground for the children of the patricians. It houses the Stendarac, a stone flag pole by Emperor Maximilian in memory of the city’s loyalty during the Venetian occupation in 1508. It is a confirmation of political rights to the city. The Original location in front of the old town hall on Koblerov trg, but in the course of history it often changes its location. The column is over 2 meters high. It is decor has with three inscriptions from 1509, 1515 and 1766. Also features a relief of St. Vida with a model of the city in hand.
The Old Gate or the Roman Arch is not a Roman triumphal arch, but a representative main entrance to the center of the late antique command of the Roman Tarsatika. The ancient city over whose ruins the medieval Rijeka rose. The people of Rijeka were instinctively right when they simply call this ancient monument the Gates in the past., The name Roman Arch gradual acceptance from the period of classicism, when documentation and research began.
The profile formwork of the Port preservation is an ongoing effort to this day.
Trsat Castle – Rijeka
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