8 Sights in Rijeka, Croatia (with Map and Images)

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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Rijeka, Croatia! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Rijeka. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.

Sightseeing Tours in Rijeka

1. Židovska sinagoga

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The Rijeka Orthodox Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located on Ivan Filipović Street, formerly Galvani Street, in Rijeka in Croatia. The synagogue was built in a Rationalist style in 1931. It is one of the very few synagogues in Croatian territory to have survived the destruction of the Nazi period.

Wikipedia: Rijeka Orthodox Synagogue (EN)

2. Natural History Museum

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Natural History Museum Original uploader was Borut Kružić at hr.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Natural History Museum Rijeka is the first regional museum in the Rijeka area. It was founded on May 16, 1876, and was opened to the public on May 1, 1946. It is located in Nikola Host Park, near the Governor's Palace, in the family building of Count Negroni.

Wikipedia: Prirodoslovni muzej Rijeka (HR), Website

3. City of Rijeka museum

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The Museum of the City of Rijeka is a general cultural and historical city museum in Rijeka. The headquarters of the Rijeka City Museum is in the Sugar Refinery Palace. Other locations of the Rijeka City Museum are the building built in 1976 in the courtyard of the Governor's Palace and the motor ship Galeb.

Wikipedia: Muzej grada Rijeke (HR), Website

4. Crkva svetog Jeronima

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The Church of St. Jerome is located on the Rijeka Resolution Square in Rijeka. With its elegant late Baroque façade, it defines the eastern wing of the Municipija building, with which it once formed the Augustinian monastery complex. The monastery and church of St. They are also a mausoleum. In the cloister of the monastery there is a lapidary with tombstones from past centuries. In the presbytery are the tombs of the Augustinians, members of the Devin-Walsee family, Giuseppe Minolli and Claudio Marburg.

Wikipedia: Crkva sv. Jeronima u Rijeci (HR)

5. Peek & Poke old computers museum

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Peek & Poke old computers museum aiva. / CC BY 2.0

PEEK&POKE is the first Croatian museum of old computers and information technology. It was opened in 2007 in Rijeka, in the city center near the Cathedral of St. Vitus in an area of three hundred square meters, which makes it the largest exhibition in the southeastern part of Europe and generally one of the first five museums on the same subject in the world.

Wikipedia: PEEK&POKE (HR), Website

6. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

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The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka is a specialized museum institution with a regional scope. The museum is thematically related to contemporary art and modern visual and artistic expression.

Wikipedia: Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti (HR), Website

7. State Archives in Rijeka

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The State Archives in Rijeka preserves in its repositories the written historical material of the Kvarner region, Gorski Kotar and part of Istria, regions that had a turbulent and rich past that left an abundance of written traces.

Wikipedia: Državni arhiv u Rijeci (HR), Website

8. Zavičajni muzej Drenove

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Zavičajni muzej Drenove Damir Medved / Javno vlasništvo

The Association "Without Borders" is a non-profit organization founded with the aim of preserving the cultural heritage of Drenova and the establishment of the Drenova Homeland Museum as a framework for the realization of planned projects. Through its programs and projects, the association strives to ensure quality inclusion of all residents of Drenova, especially the youngest. It was registered in the Register of Associations of the Republic of Croatia, pursuant to Article 14, paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Act on Associations, on 14 May 2012 under the registration number 08003617.

Wikipedia: Društvo štovatelja baštine "Bez granica" (HR)

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