At the end of the 1990s, the Palace Hotel was a four-to-five star luxury resort. Located in the Haludovo resort complex in Malinska on the Croatian island of Krk, the hotel was intended as a haven of extreme decadence for upscale vacationers on the Adriatic Sea. Today, it sits abandoned; its courtyard overgrowing, its lobbies, rooms, and recreation facilities vandalised and partially destroyed. The current state of the Palace is a story in itself, but its peculiar origins make the hotel one of the more interesting footnotes of the Cold War.
