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Grand Hotels around the Kvarner bay: Hotel Architecture between Politics and Leisure in the Austria-Hungary

The bay of Kvarner, on the north-eastern Adriatic, in the second half of the XIXth century lived a complex political situation of a triplex confinium, its western shores governed by Vienna, and central and eastern by Budapest and Zagreb. The intricate interests of three continental capitals of Austria-Hungary were reproduced in the development of port towns of Rijeka and Sušak and seaside resorts of Opatija and Crikvenica, each featuring grand hotels that corresponded to different set of concerns. The present paper analyses the Kvarner grand hotels erected between 1870 and 1914 as representations of diverse intentions of capital flux and newly acquired conscience of tourism as industry as well as a momentum for political influence.

Grand hotels; Opatija; Crikvenica; Rijeka

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