Park Vladimira Nazora Traditional Cache
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In the Vladimir Nazor park near Natural History Museum. Altitude is
55 meters above sea level.
It is plastic chewing gum container (no chewing gums inside
anymore;-))
IN:
- log paper with pencil stick
- explanation warning note for muggles
- 1 kn
- mobile leash
About park
This park continues uphill from the Nikola Hosta park, and it's
here that you'll find the small but very nice Natural History
Museum with its new Botanical Gardens, opened in Spring 2005.
Vladimir Nazor was one of Croatia's leading writers and poets -
during World War II he joined the Partizans, then became the first
president of the Croatian Parliament.
Natural History Museum
Its tradition dates back to 1876, when the natural scientist Dr.
Josef Roman Lorenz designed its function, directing it towards
geology and exploration of the sea. Although some parts of the
display and collections are general in character, this museum
primarily fosters the natural resources of Gorski Kotar, Istria and
Kvarner, and is the only one of this kind in the region. Its
permanent layout presents the geological history of the Adriatic,
sharks, rays, and osseous fishes. Its presentations are accompanied
by appropriate scenery and multimedia displays. The ichthyologic
collection contains some extremely rare species, while some
protected species can be seen in the malacological collection, and
Eocene macrofossils in the paleontological one. In the park in
front of the Museum is situated the building housing the main
office and part of the collection of the Croatian National
Archives, which collect, keep, systemize and present the written
historical records of the region. The building was originally a
villa owned subsequently by several families. After a number of
noble families of Rijeka, a British consul and a Rijeka's mayor,
the building was owned by the Austrian Archduke Joseph, brother of
the emperor Francis Joseph I. After a dispute with the court, which
forced him to live in Hungary, Joseph cunningly chose Rijeka, at
the time under direct Hungarian rule, in the immediate vicinity of
Opatija, the court of Vienna’s winter resort. Significant
reconstruction was made on the villa, consequently named the Vila
Giuseppe, supervised by the architect R. Culotti and completed in
1895. The facades and the more representative parts of the interior
were adorned in the decorations of late historicism. The palace was
surrounded by romantic English gardens with the famous botanical
garden, which even surpassed its better-known rival in Opatija.
Today's Park Nikole Hosta sadly presents only the remains of a once
splendid complex.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Oruvaq n orapu va gur jnyy. Uvqqra ol fgbar, ncc. 1 zrgre nobir gur tebhaq.