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myrtle, immortelle and wild roses. Savor the scents of lemon, Margan-Sulc pointed to studies she says prove that a stay of
fig, orange, mandarin, olive and loquat trees. Add pines, 11 days, on average, can improve lung function for those with
palms, pomegranates. pulmonary disorders.

“There’s more biodiversity on this island than there is in all of I spent hours luxuriating in the tranquility of Losinj. My home
England,” said Dr. Anamarija Margan-Sulc, an internist at the was Hotel Bellevue on Cikat Bay, a sheltered inlet where the
island’s Marine Medical Center. “There’s always something seeds of today’s 5-star tourism were planted 125 years ago.
in bloom here; gardens blossom with 80 kinds of tropical I savored solo walks along the bayfront promenade where
flowers. Plus you have the salt air of the sea – salt air that is archduke Franz Ferdinand once strolled, where Hapsburg
infused by droplets of essential oils. It is why for so many Emperor Franz Joseph I built Villa Karolina for his mistress. I
years, people are coming here to heal, to breathe with their full walked in early evening, as the setting sun’s golden glow dap-
lungs.” pled pebbly coves, burnished bows of bobbing boats, warmed
the breeze that ruffled the pines of Cikat Forest Park. I’d

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