Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Rijeka, Croatia

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Number of sights 13 sights
Distance 3.3 km
Ascend 96 m
Descend 220 m

Explore Rijeka in Croatia with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Rijeka

Sight 1: Sanctuary of the Mother of God Trsat

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The Church of Our Lady of Trsat is one of the oldest Croatian Marian shrines.

Wikipedia: Crkva Gospe Trsatske (HR)

1227 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 2: crkva Uznesenja Blažene Djevice Marije

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The Church of the Assumption of Mary, called the Duomo or The Congregation Church in Rijeka. It is located at the end of Užarska Street, once the main road.

Wikipedia: Crkva Uznesenja Blažene Djevice Marije u Rijeci (HR)

247 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Rijeka Cathedral

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Rijeka CathedralBengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden / CC BY 2.0

The St. Vitus Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Rijeka, Croatia.

Wikipedia: Rijeka Cathedral (EN)

89 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: 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 IT technologies. It opened in 2007 in Rijeka, in the city center near the Cathedral of St. Vid in the area of three hundred square meters, making it the largest lineup in the southeastern part of Europe and generally one of the first five museums of the same topic in the world.

Wikipedia: PEEK&POKE (HR)

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: State Archives in Rijeka

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

Wikipedia: Državni arhiv u Rijeci (HR), Website

95 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: 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 of the Rijeka area. It was founded on May 16, 1876 and opened to the public on May 1, 1946. It is located in Nikola Hosta Park, near the Governor's Palace, in the family building of Count Negronia.

Wikipedia: Prirodoslovni muzej Rijeka (HR), Website

281 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Governor's Palace

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The Governor's Palace is the former residence of the governor, governor of the Hungarian crown of St. Peter. In the river.

Wikipedia: Guvernerova palača u Rijeci (HR)

77 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: The Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral

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The Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral in Rijeka has been one of the most important cultural centers in the city for four decades. It is located in the Governor's Palace.

Wikipedia: Pomorski i povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja (HR), Website

130 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: City of Rijeka museum

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The Rijeka City Museum is a general cultural and historical museum in Rijeka. The seat 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 boat Galeb.

Wikipedia: Muzej grada Rijeke (HR), Website

411 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: 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 complex of the Augustinian monastery. Monastery and church of St. Peter Jerome is also a mausoleum. In the cloister of the monastery is a lapidarium with tombstones from past centuries. In the presbytery are tombs of Augustinians, members of the Devin-Walsee family, Giuseppe Minolli and Claudio Marburg.

Wikipedia: Crkva sv. Jeronima u Rijeci (HR)

204 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: City Tower

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The city clock tower in Rijeka is a famous building in Rijeka, located in the middle of Korzo.

Wikipedia: Gradski toranj u Rijeci (HR)

94 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: crkva svetog Nikole

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The Church of St. Nicholas is a Serbian Orthodox church in Rijeka, Croatia. The church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas. The building of the church was completed in 1790.

Wikipedia: Church of St. Nicholas, Rijeka (EN)

271 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Hrvatsko narodno kazaliste Ivana pl. Zajca

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Hrvatsko narodno kazaliste Ivana pl. Zajca Djoko / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka, commonly referred to as HNK Zajc, is a theatre, opera and ballet house located in Rijeka.

Wikipedia: Ivan Zajc Croatian National Theatre (EN)

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