A closer look
Strolling through a luxury resort usually involves dodging overeager towel boys, but in Croatia’s Kupari, you dodge shattered glass and overgrown vines. Once the exclusive playground for the Yugoslav military elite and Josip Broz Tito, the 1991 Croatian War of Independence reduced these opulent spa hotels to skeletal ruins. Today, it operates as a surreal, post-apocalyptic beach resort where you can lay your towel on pristine pebble beaches surrounded by bullet-pocked brutalist architecture.
