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Industrial Rijeka

It’s a working city, so there’s none of that wuss lying around you get in most tourist resorts. You get both the busy and progressive feel of a modern urban city, plus some fine historic architecture.

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The Paper Mill

The Paper Mill
Not far from the city centre, on the banks of the Rječina is a disused factory. It once employed over 1000 people and produced thousands of tons of fine cigarette paper, exported all over the world. Read_on (No Comments)

The Shipyards

Driving past the train station towards Opatija, you’ll see signposts pointing to “3 Maj”. These are Rijeka’s biggest shipyards, once the largest in the entire former Yugoslavia. Read_on (No Comments)

The Sugar Refinery

A sugar refinery was built near Rijeka’s train station in 1754, by decree of Austrian Duchess Maria Theresa. It supplied the entire Austrian Empire with sugar (it was its biggest), and more than 600 workers were employed here. Read_on (No Comments)

The Torpedo Factory

Did you know that the torpedo was invented in Rijeka? Maybe not a great thing to brag about inventing weapons of moderate destruction, but the story goes like this. Read_on (1 Comment)

Train Station

The elegant, low-lying classical form of the train station is important to Industrial Rijeka not only for its architectural Read_on (No Comments)