When most cruisers consider a Croatian sailing around the Adriatic, they opt to visit the country’s southern coast gems: exuberant Split, the country’s second-largest city and probably the best place to view buzzing Dalmatian life, or Dubrovnik, the ancient walled fortress with its stately baroque buildings.  I venture north to the chic Adriatic seaside resort town of Opatija, located at the foot of the Ucka mountains, seemingly a world away from the glitzy southern tourist hotspots. During the Austrian-Hungarian empire, Opatija was home to the elite, many of whom resided in its belle epoque villas.

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