Rijeka, center, Jelačić Square, office building 3,180 m²

At the top of the Kvarner Bay, the city has been in the same place for centuries, and the states and arrangements in which it was located have changed. How history shaped the city and what it is like today is perhaps best described by academic Zlatko Bourek, one of the authors of the popular Croatian cartoon Professor Baltazar, for whom Rijeka was the model for Baltazargrad. Of all the coastal cities, Rijeka has always had something different, something proletarian, something more bourgeois. There was also the proximity of the water, which ...