Jedrarska street (informally known as Drunken Alley) is a small, unattractive, almost invisible alley in the very centre of Rijeka. Easily bypassed, it is an error in the urban knitting, more of a passageway than a proper street, but by all its characteristics, it is actually a public square. Lawyers and fishermen, culture workers and pensioned football players, old local Italians and newly arrived citizens of Rijeka, alcoholics and toddlers alike all gather here. It is thriving with life, laughter, music, fights, trading and songs, from early in the morning until late in the evening, when all goes quiet but for a curse, a sudden shower, or a gust of wind.
The alley is the essence of the hidden mediterranean spirit of Rijeka, that of lively energy, strong emotions, grand contrasts compressed in a narrow space belonging to some other times.