Welcome to Opatija - Pearl of Adriatic!
Situated below the mountain and Nature Park Učka, Opatija (old names: Sankt Jakobi, Abbazia) is a great choice for a vacation in summer and winter season. Beautiful nature, climate, parks, hotels & old Austrian villas, seaside promenade and beaches attract tourists from Europe and all over the world for more then 160 years. Opatija is the leading tourist destination in the Republic of Croatia for the organization of conventions. Along with festivals, concerts, exhibits, and other cultural and sport events Opatija offers attractions worth visiting during the whole year!
UPCOMING EVENTS
The Croatian Museum of Tourism's organized the exhibition titled The Development of Health Tourism in Croatia which will be opened at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 29th of 2010 at the Villa Angiolina in Opatija. The exhibition will remain open until February of 2011. Opening hours:Every day, except Monday, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Admission is free.
Volosko Today, 31.7.2010 09:00 - 1.8.2010 The traditional art event 'Mandrać' is held in Volosko every year by the end of July. It brings the lively crowd of local and international painters, artists which enjoy the party afterwards.
Opening of the exhibition "Photostrip" by Marin Anicic, the author from Opatija at the Gallery "Opatijski portun".
Matt Bianco were one of the most popular British jazz-pop groups of the 1980s and 1990s, when they had a large number of hits on within the world music charts (Best Single, 1985, European Club Track, 1988). Their latest album “HIFI Bossanova”, currently an absolute hit on the European music scene, is rated as “a contagious cocktail of Brazilian music styles and pop finesses”.
MIHAILO KUFOJANAKIS, violin MOMČILO KUFOJANAKIS, violin ( Macedonia) Natalija Maričeva, piano PROGRAM H. Wieniawsky: Mazurka op.19 No.1 Obertas - F. Kreisler - Schon Rosmarini - S. Rachmaninoff - Vocalise - Ch. W. glucose - Melodie - J. Brahms - Hungarian Dance no. 2
One more Croatian exclusive intended only for the audience in Opatija – the concert by the great Al Jarreau, also famous as the only musician in the world who has won 7 Grammies in three different genres - pop, jazz and R&B, and manages well in all of them. Now he has taken a step even further: the new song with which he announces his “best of” compilation, which will be presented at this concert, produced by Amir "Questlove" Thompson, the drummer of the hip-hop band The Roots and the producer of Erykah Badu and Al Green.
Miroslav Škoro, someone who can sell out even the greatest halls in Croatia without difficulty, will have the opportunity to draw crowds to the Summer Stage in Opatija. He started his career in 1985 with the tamburitza orchestra "Slavonski Bećari" and already at that point, Miroslav Škoro’s destiny could have been anticipated, including the songs he would sing and write. During his studies in America, he met Jerry Grcevich, who encouraged him towards his true love – writing lyrics according to the cult Slavonian music. Organizer: HVIDRA Opatija
SAUNDERS & D'ESTATE @ COLOSSEUM Opatija Line up: SAUNDERS & D'Estate (Austria, Ibiza) Alex Ivanov (Rijeka / Croatia) Attilio Pessi (Rijeka / Croatia) Entry 30 kn (5 EUR)
In the gallery "Opatijski portun"will be held a concert of "Quartet Veljak on Sunday 8.8. 2010 starting at 8.30 PM. Tickets can be purchased in the gallery "Opatijski portun" at a cost of 50.00kn
On the terrace of the Hotel Kvarner Opatija will be traditional gathering to mark the Night od St. Lawrence - The Night of shooting stars, culminating with the midnight fireworks.
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Congress
24.8.2010 Bejahad 2010. , Grand Hotel AdriaticINFO | RESERVATIONS 15.9.2010 4th Congress: The Prospects of Nursing Development in Neuroscience, Hotel MilenijINFO | RESERVATIONS 15.9.2010 6th Croatian Congress of Pharmacology, Grand Hotel 4 Opatijska CvijetaINFO | RESERVATIONS 21.9.2010 GISDATA User Conference 2010, Grand Hotel 4 Opatijska CvijetaINFO | RESERVATIONS More 21.10.2010 8th Congress of the Croatian Cardiac Society & 2nd Congress of the Croatian Cardiac Nurses Society, Hotel AmbasadorINFO | RESERVATIONS
Did You Know? WHO IS THE REAL "GIRL WITH A SEAGULL"? Jelena Jendrašić was the model for Zvonko Car's sculpture"Girl with a seagull" - well-known sculptor called the statue " Opatija girl". Foto: She posed in front of sculpture in the age of 86. (V.list)
touRIst bus
See the sights of Rijeka and Opatija with commentary in ten languages. Tickets can be bought at the Rijeka and OpatijaTourist Information Centres, in hotels in Rijeka and Opatija or on the touRIst bus.
Tickets: 70 kn. Children up to 3 years old travel free. Children from 4 to 12 years old 50% discount.
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