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A beer to wash down pollution!
JLBG Says: Once at the terrace of a small bar, under a nice shade, the stinking industries, the black smoke of the chimney and everything else was forgotten. The beer was excellent and once we had two large beers for a refreshment, We were ready to drive further!
JLBG Says: These two photos were taken in 1988 from the town. The first shows various plants with a huge chimney and a lot of smoke.The second shows on the opposite bank of the bay a tanker boat loading or unloading some stinky liquid into the pipelines that show in the foreground.
First power-station in Croatia
Fiuman Says: First power-station in Croatia started to work in Bakar on 25. June 1894
Fiuman Says: There are more wellsprings in Bakar.
Fiuman Says: In the past, Bakar was an important trade port, as well as a centre of fishing, viniculture, shipbuilding and maritime affairs with nautical school (opened in 1849).
Fiuman Says: Primorje has the small Baroque church of St. Margaret, built in 1668, with paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Fiuman Says: Several buildings have interesting architecture like "Turska kuća"(Turkish House)
Fiuman Says: Below the Citadel is a three-nave church of St. Andrew, built in 1830. The church contains Baroque altars, the altarpiece by Girolamo da Santacroce (Holy Trinity) and the painting above the main altar by Janez Subic. The church treasury shelters a Romanesque cross from the...
Fiuman Says: The present day appearance is the result of numerous reconstructions and adaptations. The irregular trangle-like foundation of the Castle can be dated back to the 16th century. There was no investigations of previous phases so far. A more regular triangle-like ground-plan...
JLBG Says: This photo shows almost the same view than the previous one and it might have been taken from almost the same place, as there are not so many places along the main road where you can park to take a photo ! However, it was taken in 1989, 16 years before the other one.
JLBG Says: The first photo is a general view of the upper town, called "Grad"On top of "Grad", the church and the castle are shown on the second photo.The third photo is an enlargement on Sv. Andrija with its three naves, built from 1830 on the site of a medieval church put down by the...
JLBG Says: The first photo was taken on July 2005. It shows the city of Bakar from the south, on the Jadransja Magistrale, the main road. In the background, another segment of the main road can be seen.The second photo is a close-up on the gigantic chimney that stands on the outskirts...
croisbeauty Says: If observing carefully the visitor could notice that no doorway of the houses is turn into the direction of north, at the same time doors are pretty small even if house is big. It is again because of the very strong northen wind in the winter season. Most of the dorrs are...
croisbeauty Says: Ponistra comes from Italian language, its window while skura is a window shutter. Bakar has typical continental climate, hot summers and cold and windy winters. Shutters are usually made of solid and thick wooden plates, mostly from oak tree. It serve to protect the house...
croisbeauty Says: This is very characteristic door all along the Adriatic coastal towns, more in Dalmatia then in the northern parts. We call it "vrata na koljeno", translation would be, on the knee. Such a door is very practicale, its doorway and window, all in one. Local people, especially...
croisbeauty Says: The so-called Turkish house was turned into the Art Gallery where the local artists displays their works. Since it was early afternoon, when I have visited the place, the gallery was closed but still I have enjoyed sitting under the shadow of greenery in front of it spending...
croisbeauty Says: I like the animals, especially cats because one of siamese kind was a part of my family for nearly 18 years. This young black cutty stood fearless in the middle of the street, allowing me to make the perfect piscture.
croisbeauty Says: It was early afternoon of the mid-July when I have visited the town of Bakar. The day was very hot and the locals couldn't been seen around, except those sitting in the shadow of their balconies. That was the day when one shouldn't stroll around, as they told me....
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A small jewel amidst an industrial landscape !
Bakar is a small sheltered harbor, 15 km east of Rijeka, laying at the very bottom of a narrow bay, squeezed between the sea and the steep mountain, below the main road from Rijeka to Dubrovnik,...
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Bakar, a town and port in the north-western part of the Bakar Bay, 15 km southeast of Rijeka; includes the hamlet of Vitasevo. Bakar resembles an amphitheatre; its older part, Grad, is located on...
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Already looking at Bakar from above by the road stop shares some amazing views. You are taking the town that has well preserved local architecture, interesting history, narrow ascending-descending...
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