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The memory of Marcel Tyberg and Prof. Enrico Mihich, exile from Fiume
Marcel Tyberg was a musician of Polish Jewish origins (Tee-berg) born in Vienna on January 27, 1893, who was eliminated in the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz on December 31, 1944. Tyberg from Vienna to Abbazia (Fiume) Marcel Tyberg came from a family of musicians, studied music from a very young age and had the opportunity to frequent the virtuoso violinist Jan Kubelik in Vienna and to become friends with another violinist, later conductor of the Viennese orchestra Rodolfo Lipizer. In 1916 the Tyberg family, in the midst of the world conflict, moved from Vienna to Abbazia, a splendid seaside tourist resort a few kilometers from Fiume and known as the “pearl...
Art between the two wars in Fiume and Abbazia
The art historian and theoretician from Rijeka Branko Metzger-Šober drew a parallel between the works of Picasso and Miro and the production of painters active in the Kvarner area. Supplementing the project of an art exhibition with an enriched offer of meetings with the public, lectures or other types of activities can facilitate its understanding by visitors, as well as increase its scope. And this is precisely the aim of the events organized as part of the exhibition “Friendship Freedom”, which brought a series of works by Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro to the Art Pavilion “Juraj Šporer” in Opatija. The art historian and theoretician...
The first bathing establishments in Venezia Giulia
The flourishing of bathing establishments in the Julian March of the Istrian peninsula and the Rijeka area is closely linked not only to the birth of tourism in the mid-nineteenth century and the Belle Époque of the Austro-Hungarian empire but also to the progress of medicine and the start of therapies that were gradually perfected in the treatment of diseases. It follows that many areas already interested in spa areas in Roman times and as for the Portorose area with the use of mud. In the Monastery of San Lorenzo the Benedictine fathers settled already in the twelfth century dedicated themselves to the care of the sick, using for rheumatic pains concentrates of...
