Anyone who has the pleasure of browsing through Stemmario fiumano by Luciano Matteo Wiederhofer will have the opportunity to admire the splendid reproductions of the noble coats of arms and notable families with a description of the individual lineages that will recompose the picture of a complex city with a varied history such as that of Fiume. It is therefore a work enjoyable both on an aesthetic and historical level, which is above all full of heraldic knowledge that is based on a wide and documented set of bibliographical references that make it impeccable in terms of scientific correctness. A set of words and rules for blazoning and designing correctly...

Rijeka owes to the railway the role it has acquired in history as a crossroads of trade and culture. These days we are commemorating the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of the railway in Rijeka, of the two lines built in 1873, which connected our city to Pivka in Slovenia and to Karlovac, from where it continues towards Zagreb and Budapest. Yesterday an exhibition dedicated to the history of the railway in Rijeka was inaugurated, set up on the panels in Corso. Even today the railway lines that lead from Rijeka to the hinterland play a great role in freight traffic, but we realize that today they are no longer sufficient. One can even joke by saying that today the trains...

One of the most lavish objects kept in the collection of the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral in Rijeka is a Meissen porcelain vase that has recently undergone a meticulous restoration. As part of the collaboration with the National Institute for Restoration (HRZ) in Zagreb, the process of restoring the precious object was presented in the Marble Hall by the Institute's senior conservator and restorer, Maša Vuković Biruš. Four months of work The expert, who worked on the restoration of the vase for four months, retraced all the stages that brought the object back to its original state, except for a few elements that are not...

“Rijeka Flags – Monograph of 200 Years of the City’s Struggle for the Right to Its Flag”. This is the title of the monograph written by Željko Heimer, published by the Association of the Free State of Rijeka (Slobodna država Rijeka) and presented a few days ago. A book thanks to which, as the author said, the complex history of the Rijeka tricolour and coat of arms is presented. “The first data date back to around the 1508th-XNUMXth century, but we know that the banner, which is located in the Resolution Square, was put up in the XNUMXth century (XNUMX), so I imagine that there was an official flag at that time. We don’t know exactly which one, probably...

The architect from Trieste Emilio Ambrosini, as previously generously mentioned, was fundamental for the aesthetic urban definition of Fiume. For its artistic and executive qualities his opus represents, in the framework of Fiume architecture, a significant moment of modernity and Central European coherence comparable to that of the creations that appeared in the other metropolises of the Danubian Monarchy. At the dawn of the 20th century his drawings reveal a certain purification of the aggressive, heavy decoration of the relief models and an architecture that simplifies the façade, as occurs especially in two large buildings free of the elements...

In Fiume – Rijeka, May 3rd has just been celebrated, the date on which the city was conquered by Yugoslavia in 1945. But in Fiume, on that May 3rd 1945, after the end of the fascist regime and Nazi occupation, did the real liberation begin? From May 1945 to May 1954, as many as 38.000 FIUMANS abandoned the city. True democracy in Fiume – Rijeka, as in all of Croatia, came only with the birth of the Republic of Croatia after the wars in former Yugoslavia (1991-1996). The celebration of May 3rd in Fiume-Rijeka has passed, but the serious consequences caused by Tito's Yugoslav regime are never spoken of. It is right to remember the liberation from...

Fiume has always been a hotbed of cultures and cultural expressions. Proof of this is the transformation of the urban reality between the 576th and XNUMXth centuries, in response to the needs of its citizens, due to the heterogeneity of its buildings and the modernization of its architectural choices, from Neoclassicism to the Secessionist style. In concert with all this, in the second half of the XNUMXth century, following the demolition of the Adamich Theatre and while waiting for its reconstruction, the entrepreneur Caterina Ricotti, “very well-known, very good woman” (Varietà), had a small wooden theatre built in the garden of her home (in via S. Andrea XNUMX), with a rather...