Medveja, Croatia

Medveja
Village
Beach in Medveja
Medveja
Coordinates: 45°16′N14°16′E / 45.267°N 14.267°E / 45.267; 14.267
Country	Croatia
County	Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
Municipality	Lovran
Area [1]
• Total	2.4 km2 (0.9 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [2]
• Total	139
• Density	58/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Medveja is a village in Lovran municipality, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, in Croatia. It is connected by the D66 highway. Medveja is a former picturesque coastal fishing village, located 3 kilometers from the center of Lovran. ^[3]

History

The village's popular tavern Špajza burned down in the morning of one day in late June 2019 and the fire threatened to spread across the D66 to a neighbouring object, but the fire department JVP Opatija and volunteer fire department DVD Lovran stopped it. ^[4]

References

1. Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata   Q119585703.
2. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
3. "Medveja". Turistička zajednica Općine Lovran (in Croatian). 2020-06-01. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
4. n.s. (December 2019). "Izgorjela konoba u Medveji" [A Tavern in Medveja Burned Down](PDF). Nazovi 193 (in Croatian). Vol. 12, no. 24. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-09-27.