Mali Lošinj & the Museum of Apoxyomenos

Mali Lošinj boomed in the 18th and 19th centuries on tuna, shipbuilding and Mediterranean trade — its fleet sailed as far as the Pacific. The Austrian health era began in 1892 when the island’s climate spa was founded; pine forests were planted deliberately to scent the air, and the harbour’s painted villas date from that Belle Époque. The Apoxyomenos, a Roman copy of a Greek original from the school of Lysippos, lay encrusted between rocks at 40 m depth for two millennia before sponge divers found it.