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Crikvenica - History

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Crikvenica is situated in the most beautiful part of Croatian coast, and has performed more than one hundred years of tradition in tourism. Unusually favorable climatological conditions are giving more than 2500 hours of sunshine annually.

Bronze Age swords, spears, axes and jewelry were found in several places in the area of ​​the town of Crikvenica. At the mouth of the river Dubračine, that even in ancient times was navigable up to present a football field, but at the beginning of a new era there was a settlement Ad Turres. It was one of the key sites along the Roman road from Italy to Dalmatia.

In the eighth Century of Croatian settlement in Vinodolu organize their parish, which consisted of independent municipalities. The new home and bring your spiritual and material culture, on whose witnesses extraordinarily examples of jewelry and personal items were found in the early Croatian cemetery Stranger-Gorica near Crikvenica. They were the farmers and fishermen, and the domicile of the Roman population took the art of vine cultivation. And the Latin name for the fertile valley, Vallis vinearia translated in Croatian Vinodol.

Termination of the ravages of war enabled the resettlement of the coastal area. On the left side of the mouth of the river Dubračine built a small church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. With her, Prince Nicholas IV Frankopan raises 1412th The big building and it gives the church right Pauline. This marked the beginning of the monastic buildings stvranja Crikvenica, and Prince Nicholas Frankopana can be regarded as its founder, the Blessed Virgin Mary is considered its protector.

Century Austrian and Hungarian rule left a still visible "Mittel" track, which is particularly salient feature in the hotel's architecture. In this spirit, built the first hotel Crikvenica's Archduchess Clotilde (now pharmacy Adriatic), a particularly pronounced in the hotel "Therapy", Crikvenica first major hotel built in the 1895th year, which is the first time they called the Hotel of Archduke Joseph. From season to season, Crikvenica has been visited by royalty, movie stars, but also many ordinary tourists.

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