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From anywhere in Opatija, you’ll see the water, the glistening Bay of Kvarner. Yet, for a city that lives off of the water, Opatija seems distant from it, like a grand lady scared to dip her toe in the sea lest she ruin her dress. The beaches are weirdly sad in the town, either neglected or clogged with overpriced chaise lounge chairs.

Then again, the water was never the point. The Austrians that turned Opatija from a small town into a destination didn’t come to swim at all. Doctors didn’t recommend Opatija’s water as a cure; they prescribed its air, warm, humid, and slightly salty. Swimming was popularized only when the plebians of Yugoslavia showed up. The sea wasn’t the point; the sea air (and being seen by the sea) was the point. The sea turned from a natural feature into a commodity.

Today, the Habsburg past itself has become a commodity, and the tourism board uses imperial ties, as tenuous and kitsch as they sometimes are, to market the town. A great example is the Sissi industry. The Habsburg Empress Sissi, wife of Franz Joseph I, icon of all that was fashionable in her time, is still a very popular figure in German-speaking lands (or formerly Austrian-occupied lands) thanks to children’s books, movies, and more. Visit Opatija and you can pose with your face in a Sissi cut-out, find Sissi-themed souvenirs, and if you time your visit properly, take photos with a live Sissi reenactor. Given her postmortem omnipresence, you’d think Sissi was a regular patron, but she only visited once, and local historians and the tourism board only unearthed proof of that visit a few years ago, long after the Sissi images had (re)colonized the town. Some historians suspect she deliberately avoided Opatija, likely due to her avoidance of all Slavic lands in support of her beloved Hungarians. Still, her image is popular across former Austro-Hungarian countries, and historical truth matters less than what sells.

Sissi plays another role. It reminds the Austrian and German visitors that we were part of the same empire. We are Central European, nothing of the dreaded South, or even worse, the East. It doesn’t matter that Croatia’s relationship with Austria-Hungary was that of a subordinate colony; what matters is that we were part of it, not part of the Balkans, thank you very much.

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