The written history reaches 7th c.,when it's called Lauriana,but according to a legend,town is five hundred years older. According to one, Lovran was created when the Roman patrician and statesman Marcus Agripa, in the 1st c.AD, built his summer residence on the site of today's Lovran town.

In the next few centuries, its economic development is caused by specific geographic position and climate. Shipping and shipbuilding at one, and thriving of many mediteranian vegetations at the other side, united by trading ,made sure that inhabitants of Lovran had such a succesfull economy. For the centuries Lovran managed to keep intensive trading beetween Rijeka, Pula, Trieste, Senj and other towns. It trades with fruits,vegetables,wine,olive oil and fish.

In a early middle age, the city assumes its caracteristic littoral architecture. It become surrounded by defending walls and towers, with three guarded gates for the entrance. Inside the walls are caracteristic paved narrow streets and close together,mostly two-storied houses. St George's Square ( St George being the patron saint of the town), was the main square in the city and the centre of public religious and cultural life. At the square are parish church built in Romanesque style in 12th c., the main towns tower which became the city symbol, and an edifice which served as the seat of the medieval town government in opposite to St. George`s Church.
A powerful economy has reflected at the architecture, Lovran is abound in churches and buildings with emphasized portals, many of them protected to these days.
  
In 19tf c. Lovran started to develop as touristic centre,and at the turn of century it expiriences real expansion as that. Less tradiotional boats were used in trading and Lovran was more and more distinguished by as a health and touristic resort. in 1878. the Istrian parliament in Poreč proclaimed it a Kurort, or cure town. The health benefits of this climate have been noticed by some aristocracy much earlier in the past.

The inhabitants of Lovran have easily adapted to the newest changes, and in next few years along the shoreline were created pansions, hotels, villas and sanatoriums, luxuriously cultivated gardens with planty of flowers,magnolias, pines,palm-trees,...At the turn of century Lovran became beloved by Austro-hungarian aristocracy, political and financial elite, and artists aswell. Soon, more than 12 km coastal promenade «lungomare» was constructed, connecting to Opatija and Volosko.
During 20th c. Lovran continues its boom as a health and touristic destination ,managing to keep its own identity by resisting the mass tourism trend in 60-ies and 70-ies.