History and culture...

Bronze Age swords, spears, axes and jewellery have been found in various locations in the area of the city of Crikvenica. In the suburban areas still unaffected by urbanization, prehistoric graves and burial mounds are still often found. A series of fortified prehistoric villages have been discovered, dating from the Bronze and the beginning of the Iron Age, were found primarily on the tops of the hills that surround our city.

At the mouth of the river Dubračine, which was even navigable up to today’s soccer field during ancient times, at the beginning of the new era existed as the settlement called Ad Turres. It was one of the key locations along the Roman road that went from Italy to Dalmatia. This station for the exchange of horses included a military post, which secured the travel route between the coast and the neighbouring valley, Vallis vinearieae, Vinodola. At one time in this place there was an important local workshop with furnaces for the production of clay objects. During a long peaceful period, without war, wealthy Romans built their villas and government buildings in the well-protected sea coves, with the relics of Selce and Jadranova found in the cove of Lokvišća bearing witness to this fact.

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