Foreign.
Motel was a roadside landmark in Croatia for 40 years.
Its distinctive pedestrian skyway above the country's main motorway was matched by equally distinctive architecture and interiors.
But it all came crashing down in August 2024, after years of unpaid rent led to the arrival of the wrecking ball.
You're listening to Tour Stories, a Monocle production brought to you by the team behind the Urbanist.
I'm Andrew Tuck.
In this episode, Monocle's man in the Balkans, Guy Delaunay, pays tribute to a Yugoslav icon.
The Plitvice Motel had been a survivor of a certain kind of output fixture that's in danger of going the same way as Little Chef.
What used to be known as Yugoslavia's highway of brotherhood and unity is littered with the skeletons of facilities that outlived their purpose.
Now the Plitvice Motel is not even that demolished at the end of August.
Along with all its distinctive Yugoslav architecture and interior features, this was a bit of a head scratcher for all of us who've endured the long drag between Croatia's border with Slovenia and and its frontier with Serbia.
The plains of Slavonia stretch out interminably Pancake Flat, with the road straight as an arrow.
With boredom and fatigue the greatest dangers to the driver, you'd think that roadside accommodation would do a roaring trade.
But the derelict motels and restaurants testify to the fact that lorry drivers now prefer to sleep and even cook in their cabs.
And modern cars are perfectly happy to purr away at the speed limit of 130km h.
So it seems most drivers are happy to just blast on through without an overnight stop.
All this and possibly some other factors which we'll come to combine to spell doom for the Plitvice Motel.
Despite its name, it was nowhere near the World Heritage Listed lakes.
But it was commissioned by the organisation which runs the Plitvice national park and proudly displayed the name in friendly orange lowercase letters on its distinctive pedestrian skyway.
This feature linked the two parts of the facility either side of the highway.