Bay of Bakar
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The Bay of Bakar (Croatian: Bakarski zaljev ) is a bay in the northern Adriatic Sea in Croatia. It is located about 20 kilometers south of the city of Rijeka in the Kvarner Bay.
Location
Are located on the coast of the Bay three places: the city Bakar ( Italian: Buccari ) in the north, the small settlement Bakarac in the south and at the exit from the bay, the city Kraljevica. From a geological point of view of the bay is the Flyschmulde of Wippach ( Vipava ) and Rijeka, which runs along the lineament Vipava Rijeka Bakar - Vinodol.
On bay runs along the Adriatic coastal road. The original road ran directly through the town of Bakar. Currently, she crosses the slope. The highway is under construction is created above the hills.
History
During the First World War, the imperial navy had in the Bay of Bakar one of their main naval base ( in addition to the in Pula). Despite the easy to control in itself capable of this great natural harbor succeeded the Italians on 10 February 1918 Bakar take in a coup with only 30 men on speedboats. This military coup was later described in Italy as Beffa di Buccari of Gabriele D'Annunzio and set to music by Luigi Dallapiccola.
Economy
Since the Middle Ages in particular tuna is caught in the bay. In the village of Bakarac are still three restored, sloping wooden ladders to see that were erected on the shore, and served up in the 1980s as lookouts for the fishermen. In May and August / September, the schools of tuna came into the bay. The water on the tuna shoals curled in a characteristic form. One day provided the fisherman Bakar not only the near Rijeka, but also Trieste and even Venice. The overfishing of the effort is no longer worth today.
After the Second World War, the systematic port and industrial development led to a significant recovery of the port of Rijeka. For lack of space directly in the port area, there was a division of the port functions into the surrounding countryside. 1965 was built on the area of Bakar refinery of the company Industrija nafte ( INA).
1969, the ore and 1978, the coal port of Rijeka was moved to the Bay of Bakar. The oil harbor came into the Omišalj Bay on the island of Krk ( JANAF ), from where does a 7.2 km long and 20 inches thick pipeline to the oil refinery of Rijeka. This is located 12 kilometers south of the city and covers an area of 3.5 square kilometers in the communities Kostrena and Bakar, is reachable via ship, road and railroad. The refinery has its own port, shipyards and offshore facilities for the supply and transportation of goods, crude oil, petroleum products and petroleum derivatives. Aviation turbine fuel kerosene, diesel fuel, heating oil, fuel oil, bitumen, coke, liquid sulfur, base oils, automotive and industrial lubricants, greases, paraffin Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Virgin naphtha, motor gasoline, kerosene,: In the INA refinery following products are produced.
By the end of the nineties of the last century was in Bakar coke plant, which has since been closed. On the mountain slopes you can still see many no longer currently used drywall terraces ( kroat. Bakarski prezidi ), where in the past viticulture for sparkling wine production was operated. While the sparkling variety Bakarska Vodica still exists, but is now no longer Bakar.
Attractions
As a result, the industrial use of the bay, tourism came. This meant that preserves degrees with its stately old houses of merchants and captains, with its many stairs and alleys down to the harbor its medieval urban structure in Bakar is the old district and is not influenced by tourist buildings.