Opatija Croatia
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 It is easy to believe that you are only two- and-a-half-hour's gentle boat ride away from Venice. But Opatija grew up as a playground for Viennese high society which came for the weather and the thermal spas and, in some ways, it still has the air of another cen tury. James Joyce worked here for a while as an English teacher in the now Croatian town of Pula. A portrait of the artist as a young man that I had never heard about, though I'm sure the place was right up his boulevard. The composer Giacomo Puccini and the innovative dancer Isadora Duncan were also regular visitors. From Guardian, Sunday July 7, 2002. To read the rest of the article, click the title below:
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