It has always been beautiful here, that can be taken for granted. That is why it has always been an easy and delightful task to find the right words to describe the advantages of this exquisite gem, which today presents itself as our Villa Neptun, but at the turn of the century was presented to the first travelers to Abbazia as Villa Meyne, as follows:

While the construction management was carried out by the architectural firm Carlo Conighi from Rijeka, the basic plans for the villa were drawn up by the Austrian-Czech architect Adolf Tichy, who was not one of the most profiled architects on the Kvarner coast during his short creative period, but nevertheless created an important work with the construction of a representative building for the "Reading Society in Abbazia" (today Villa Operetta in the old town, Ulica Svetog Florijana 1;). It is assumed that Villa Meyne was run as a guesthouse immediately after it was built; many owners did so, with one part being private and the rest rented out.

The villa was soon bought by the Countess Laura Henckel von Donnersmark, who in turn became the owner of Baroness Horvath and the Migl family in 1908. The latter renamed their domicile to its current name: Villa Neptun. At this time, the building also acquired its resemblance to Miramare Castle in Trieste and became a popular motif on numerous postcards. Until 1945, Villa Neptun had not lost much of its magnificent appearance, but in the 1950s its appearance was reduced to the simple forms of the time.