Brijuni

Real-world model for Death in Venice; pinned at the real place within Croatia.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Death in Venice	Thomas Mann	journey waypoint	After a night train to Trieste and a ship to Pola, Aschenbach settles on an island off Istria.

Death in Venice — Thomas Mann (1912)

Source: Death in Venice · Readwise highlight

What he sought was something exotic and distinctive yet of easy access, and so he stopped at an island in the Adriatic, not far from the coast of Istria

• Role: journey waypoint
• In the book: After a night train to Trieste and a ship to Pola, Aschenbach settles on an island off Istria. Rain, a heavy atmosphere, closed Austrian hotel society and the lack of a sandy beach sour him. After a week and a half he leaves by motorboat for the naval base and boards a steamer for Venice.
• Why it matters: The failed first stop pushes him toward Venice, where the rest of the novella unfolds.
• Real vs. fictional: unnamed in text; real model