Municipal Palace
Stendarac -the city flagpole
Church of St. Jerome

The traditional tourists round of Rijeka begins on Rijeka Resolution Square (Trg Riječke rezolucije), at the southwest end of the Old Town, dominated by the Baroque church facade of the once Augustinian, and now Dominican monastery of St. Jerome. The monastery was founded in the 14th century as a foundation of feudal masters of Rijeka, its church being the sanctuary and mausoleum of Rijeka's noblemen. Despite the significant alterations brought to it in the late Baroque, the most important of which are attributed to the naturalized Rijeka's architect A. Verneda, traces of earlier constructions, especially late-Gothic, can still be seen on its exterior and interior walls. Among these, the polygonal sanctuary, a chapel with cross-ribbed vault, and the two-storey cloister, still waiting to be restored to its splendour, are particularly worth noting. The prior of the monastery at the end of the 16th century was the famous cartographer I. Klobučarić. Important pieces of the church inventory include the main altar, work of the sculptor A. Michelazzi, and the Baroque altarpiece with a view of Rijeka. The cloister houses sepulchral slabs of feudal captains of Rijeka, governors who administered Rijeka on behalf of its masters. The Augustinian monastery ceased to exist by the edict of Joseph II abolishing the order. The monastery was subsequently re-established as a Dominican one, but on a far smaller scale. A majority of the north and west wing monastery buildings were appropriated by the municipality of Rijeka in the first half of the 19th century to be used as the new seat of local government. In the second part of the 19th century the most important interventions into their structure were made according to the projects of the architect F. Bazarig, who adorned the facade of the then seat of the city government, the Municipium, in the Neoclassical style. In accordance with the tradition established in the not so distant 19th century, and following the project of the architect I. Emili, the city flagpole dating from the early 16th century was placed on a high base and erected on the square. It was originally probably situated on the square in front of the oldest known City Hall, today's Koblerov Square. The flagpole bears a relief of St. Vitus, patron saint of Rijeka, presented as a young gentleman in patrician's clothes. In his right hand the saint is holding a palm, attribute of martyrdom, and in his left hand a scale model of the city.