Rabac

Situated in Kvarner Bay, at the foot of towering slopes protecting the town and also ensuring a mild Mediterranean climate, Rabac with a tourist capacity of nearly 10,000 beds can justly claim the title of ‘the pearl of Kvarner’.

Wonderful surrounding, lovely pebbly beach, pleasant climate and view of Kvarner Bay all attracted holiday-makers and travel writers as early as the mid-19th century when Rabac was just a small fishing village. Its first hotel, Hotel Quarnero was built in 1889, but in spite of all its advantages at the beginning of the 20th century Rabac could not match the more developed tourist resorts such as Pula-Pola and Poreč in the west or Opatija and Lovran in the east. Although the first larger hotel was opened as late as 1925, today Rabac is a developed tourist resort with about 15 hotels and apartment villages and several campsites. Mediterranean vegetation and untouched nature is ideal for hiking, biking and exploring.

Apart from its rich catering, sports and entertainment offer, Rabac offers numerous excursion possibilities especially to the Istrian interior with numerous agri touristic complexes. And just above Rabac, nestling on the top of the hill at a height of 320 m above sea level lies the old mining town of Labin.

This town still manages to transmit the same charm and spirit of that 17th century village it once was.

Rabac is the major tourist resort on the eastern coast of the Istrian Peninsula, some 40 kilometres away from Pula-Pola and only five kilometres from Labin.