Kastav is little historical town near Rijeka and under Opatija (touristic centre of region). It has population of about 34,000 people. Kastav is on 365m under sea. Many parks and big forest are atrractive to foreign visitors and hikers. Rijeka city tower Ferry in Rijeka harbour Rijeka (in local Croatian dialects Rika and Reka; Fiume in Italian and Hungarian, Reka in Slovene; Sankt Veit am Flaum in older German; R(ij)eka and Fiume both mean river) is the principal seaport of Croatia, located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet... Opatija (Italian Abbazia) is a city in western Croatia, just southwest of Rijeka on the Adriatic coast, population 7,850 (2001), total municipality population 12,719 (2001). ...
The ancient town of Kastav is situated on a hill 377 meters high, and is one of the old towns - beside Drivenik, Hreljin, Grobnik, Mošćenice and Veprinac - to have a view on the sea but with roots firmly planted deep into its own soil.
To this day, people from the Kastav area have been emigrating, looking for a better life in the outside world, while few were coming into the area, and mainly during large epidemics, for example the cholera of 1863, when “people were dropping like flies”.
In the period of transition from the 19th to the 20th century, Kastav was the cultural and national lighthouse of Istria.
During the Middle Ages church authorities in Kastav region belonged to the bishops of Pula and from the middle of the 12th century the secular masters of Kastav were counts of Devin (from Duino, not far from Trieste) that were replaced by the counts of Walsea around 1400.
From 1630 to 1773 the region of Kastav belonged to Jesuits.
From Kastav up to the North there is a woods Loza and Lužina, an ecological paradise, traversed by the European pedestrian way E-6, and it follows the trases of an ancient Amber way, connecting the coasts of the Baltic (town Flensburg) and the Adriatic Sea.
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