Oneof the most attractive villas of Liburnian sea-side is surely
Secession-style Münz villa, constructed in 1903 by Jakob Ludwig Münz, a
stone-worker and owner of stone-pits in Southern Tirol (Austria) and
constructor of the well-famous Grand Hotel of Pula. He was a promoter of
the opening of the bus line Rijeka-Pula. Ludwig Münz arrived at Opatija
in the capacity as partner of Alfred Wrede, the concessionaire and
founder of the tram service, which from 1908 to 1933 has linked Matulji
and Lovran. The Villa, whose cellars were full of malvasia wine, has
been nationalised in 1948 and took over by Syndicates and after that by a
Macedonian Children Organisation; recently the villa was the
accommodation of displaced persons from Podunavlje, and finally in 1999,
it has been acquired by the Hoppers, a Croatian-American couple.
Opatija : The devastation of Villa Münz | Night Raft
