Rabac is a town and port on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula, in Istria county, Croatia. Today, Rabac is a well-known tourist resort. By the middle of the 19th century, it was a small fishing village with ten houses. Due to the beautiful bay and splendid, tame surroundings, it soon attracted its first visitors. In 1876, Richard Francis Burton, an English writer and a passionate traveler, was among the first tourists who stayed in Rabac.
Having seen Rabac and other places on the Istrian coast, he wrote a book of the same title 'The Istrian coast', describing, among other things, the beauties and charm of Rabac. At that time Rabac witnessed the building of the first villas. The most well-known was the villa belonging to the Prohaska family, Czechs by origin, the villa was destroyed during the Second World War, but one of the most attractive locations in Rabac still bears the name of Prohaska.