The silhouette of the four bell towers on the high stone cliff of the peninsula is a well-known image of Rab - an image that has followed it for centuries. With minor changes, this silhouette has been standing for two millennia on the cliff between the bay of Sv. Euphemia and a smaller bay that no longer has a name - because it became the city port. City of Rab. It was built, at first as a fortress surrounded by a dry stone wall, by the Illyrian tribe Liburna. The settlement, which must have been surrounded by thick black forests of holm oak and coastal pine, was called Arbe (tama in the Illyrian language). From that time until today, the city of Rab stands as an ornament of the island, but also as a center from which culture, art, and education spread... The numerous churches in the city itself, but also on the entire island, bear witness not only to religious tradition, but also to civilizational, cultural , artistic and architectural achievements. Rab's monasteries, churches, palaces, secular buildings, squares and lodges as secular meeting places, courts and markets are witnesses of a highly developed social environment. It should not be surprising then that Marko Antun de Dominis, one of the greatest minds of 16th century Europe, theologian, physicist, preacher and church reformer, also grew up in the bosom of Rab. When the Romans came to Rab in the second century BC, they found a developed city. The greatest Roman emperor, Augustus Octavian, had walls and towers built around the city for easier defense. The remains of Rab ramparts and fortifications still stand on their foundations. The Romans called the city "happy" - Felix Arba. This title indicated the wealth, merits and importance of a municipality for Rome. From ancient Roman rulers through Byzantine and Venetian rule, as well as Hungarian and Croatian kings, Rab often changed rulers, but the city never suffered major destruction. Perhaps the Roman Felix Arba referred to that as well. The subtlety of the Rab road through history is also reflected in its buildings, a simple grid of streets dominated by three parallel longitudinal streets.