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Five hotels built in the 1960s, once frequented by Yugoslavia’s military elite, sit crumbling into the crystal clear waters of the Adriatic Sea. They’ve now been abandoned for decades. The...
The so-called “bay of abandoned hotels” is the complex of former hotels in Kupari, Croatia that has been neglected for some twenty years now. There are seven hotels in the complex (Grand, Goričina I, Goričina II, Kupari, Pelegrin, Mladost and Galeb) and all of them are in disrepair.
These fascinating before-and-after pictures highlight the transformation of the resort - which lies just six miles along the coast from enchanting Dubrovnik - from dazzling to decaying. Beachgoers...
What was once a beautiful seaside resort is now abandoned and forgotten. Take a behind the scenes look at the abandoned hotels of Kupari.
Five hotels, built in the 60’s and once a holiday home for Yugoslavia’s military elite, sit crumbling into the crystal clear waters of the Adriatic Sea. They’ve now been abandoned for decades.
Exploring the Bay of Abandoned Hotel in Kupari on Croatia's Dalmatian Coast. It's one of the Balkans most accssible urbex locations, but for how long?
The abandoned Kupari resort, Croatia. Clockwise from top left: the Pelegrin, the Kupari Hotel, the Grand Hotel, Hotel Goričina. Various investors have shown interest over the years, but now, it seems a buyer might finally have appeared.
The etchings of ‘Climate Justice Now’ and ‘Fuck Trump’ raised questions of it being an abandoned hotel owned by the former President, having been graffitied to show the local’s distaste for his political stance.
Kupari was deserted by guests and guarded by Croatian forces, resulting in the hotel complex being bombed by Yugoslavia and Serbia. The assault on the Kupari hotels lasted three weeks, before the Yugoslavians eventually overtook the resort, looting and burning the hotels.
Over the months and years that followed, the hotels of Kupari were subjected to shelling, missiles and artillery fire the scars of which remain very visible up until today. The very same Yugoslavian military officials who had once basked in Kupari’s beauty had all but destroyed it.