Rabac
settlement in the Town of Labin, Istria County, Croatia
Rabac (Italian: Porto Albona) is a Croatian resort town on Kvarner Bay, just southeast of Labin, in Istria.
Long a small fishing port, Rabac has grown in the 1970s into a resort town with numerous villas and apartment buildings.
The Rabac Festival is an annual electronic music festival that has been held there for many years; 3000 people attended in 2002.
History
Up until the end of the 19th century, Rabac was a small fishing village. British explorer Richard Francis Burton visited the village in 1876 and mentioned it his book The Seaboard of Istria. The first summer mansion was built at that time by the Prohaska family but got later destroyed during World War II. The first hotel in Rabac, named Quarnaro, was opened on 11 June 1889.
Demographics
According to the 2021 census, its population was 1,257.
Notable people
Franka Batelić, musician, grew up in Rabac.
Elis Lovrić, musician, grew up in Rabac.
Tourism
Regular music concerts are held at Rabac beach and in the hotels.
The public source identifies “Rabac” as settlement in the Town of Labin, Istria County, Croatia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rabac, settlement and Town.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1018677. VIAF identifies the subject as 240947727. Authority coordinates are 45.078, 14.162. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002, 1876, 1889 and 2021.
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This entry incorporates text from “Rabac” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.