Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Rijeka, Croatia

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Number of sights 11 sights
Distance 2.5 km
Ascend 80 m
Descend 53 m

Experience Rijeka in Croatia in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Individual Sights in Rijeka

Sight 1: 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

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 2: 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

344 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: 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)

539 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: The Capucin Church of Our Lady of Lourdes

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The Capuchin Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, with its luxurious neo-Gothic façade decorated with mosaics and ornate stone decorations, dominates the Frog Square in Rijeka.

Wikipedia: Kapucinska crkva Gospe Lurdske u Rijeci (HR)

498 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Palača Municipija

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The Municipija Palace is the building of the former city government in Rijeka. With its three facades, it dominates the Rijeka Resolution Square.

Wikipedia: Palača Municipija (HR)

358 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: 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 7: 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

163 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: 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

135 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: 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

241 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: 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 hubs in the city for four decades. It is located in the Governor's Palace.

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

77 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Governor's Palace

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The Governor's Palace is the former residence of the governor, the governor of the Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen in Rijeka.

Wikipedia: Guvernerova palača u Rijeci (HR)

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