Basic facts about Rabac

Rabac is a city in Istria County and is located near the town of Labin. Because of the position in the Kvarner Bay, Rabac is a tourist resort capacity 10,000 guests in hotels, apartments, campsites and private accommodation. The climate is Mediterranean with plenty of sunny days during the summer.

History of Rabac

Well known tourist resort Rabac in mid-19 century, was a small fishing village with hardly ten houses. Because of the beautiful bay and tame it soon attracted first visitors. One of the first passionate tourists is an English writer Richard Francis Burton, who stayed in Rabac in 1876th year. After that visit, and other places along the coast of Istria was created the novel „The Istrian coast“ and describes the beauty and charm of Rabac.

At that time, Rabac start with first summer houses, and best known building in Rijeka is from merchant family Prohaska, originally from the Czech Republic. The first hotel in Rabac „Quarnero“ is opened 11th June 1889th , and was in the family house Viskovic. The hotel was with only a few rooms and on the ground floor was pub.

Regular customer in first Rabac hotel was an Austrian officer Kaiser, who later bought an estate near Labin, Dubrova, a place now known by the Mediterranean Sculptors Symposium and Sculpture Park. The chronicle will note that at the beginning of this century – 1907. Rabac treat The Austro Hungerian Prince Ferdinand.

Residents from Rabac were skilled fishermen and seamen and the owners of a dozen sailing ships, which were eventually suppressed by motor boats disappeared in the maelstrom of 2nd World War.
The first large hotel was built when Rabac was under Italy rule, in center of Rabac in 1925. is build hotel „Trieste“. As it was insufficient for the growing demand of tourists, mainly from northern Italy, these is more intensive development of renting rooms in private homes.

Tourism in Istria, as well as in Rabac, began to develop during the sixties, when this small town for its natural beauty gets the flattering name of „Pearl of the Kvarner Bay“. Since then raise all the other hotels, resorts, camping, and most homes.
Among the visitors, for years the most are Germans and Austrians, followed by English and Italian.