Rijeka Things to Do

Saint Vitus is the patron of the City of Rijeka. City of Rijeka celebrates the Day of its Patron St. Vitus every year on the 15th June. It has became the Day of City of Rijeka, signified by ceremoniously clergy and public celebration.
The Church of St. Vitus was in the period of the middle age a small and one-sided, romanic church with semi-circular apse behind the alter and covered porch. With the arrival of the Jesuits in Rijeka, it became the jesuit´s church. In 1925. Rijeka became the center of the diocese, and in 1969. the center of the archbishopric and metropolit. The representative jesuit´s Church of St. Vitus became the Cathedral of Rijeka.

Tvornica "Torpedo" (the Torpedo factory) The first European prototypes of a self-propelled torpedo were created by Giovanni Luppis, a retired naval engineer from Rijeka. The remains of this factory still exist, including a well-preserved launch ramp used for testing self propelled torpedoes on which in 1866 the first torpedo was tested.

When you purchase the Rijeka Card you will receive discounts in over 130 locations in Rijeka and Opatija: in city museums,galleries and souvenir shops(50-66%), many restaurants(10-20%) and shops (10%). Along with the Card, for aprice of only 55 kuna, you will also receive a brochure full of information and a map of the city and you may also use public city transport for free for a period 48 hours.

On 8 June 2007 the touRIst bus made its first steps and welcomed the first visitors on its Opatija-Rijeka route, telling them during their trip interesting stories about the past and present of our cities. This idea has come to life, most of all, thanks to the efforts of the City of Rijeka and the Rijeka Tourist Board in the desire to enhance what is on offer to tourists so that our guests, and also local inhabitants, can experience our cities in a totally new way.
Tourists can listen to interesting tales about the cities' past and present but also future in 10 languages: Croatian, Italian, German, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Hungarian, Chinese and Japanese. And children can listen to stories written especially for them in Croatian, Italian, German, English, French and Russian.

Rijeka is the largest port in Croatia with the total throughput close to 11 million tons of cargo in 2006, according to the Port of Rijeka Authority.

Actually we have two ports: Rijeka and Susak; in history one belonged to Italy other to Yugoslavia.

Beautiful Transadria building in Rijeka port with number of maritime offices and supporting industries. Each time I pass by, I use this building for time and temperature measurement.

Oposite from building is passanger ferry terminal.

Port of Rijeka is the biggest port on Adriatic and also the most important port in Croatia, and Rijeka’s traffic route the most vital continental – nautical route in the state.

In 19th century, biggest and only hungarian port, they built railway line Budapest-Rijeka to connect city with sea.

Rijeka has street called La Guardia. Why? Simple, Fiorello la Guardia lived in the city at the begining of 20th century. Obviously, locals liked him very much and today apart of street name, there is house designated as place where he lived and worked.