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Rovinj - Croazia

 

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This town is one of the most beautiful of the Istrian region. It is surrounded by hills covered by woods, in the middle of which lie numerous luxury hotels, in complete harmony with nature; while on the archipelago opposite its coast there are 13 green islands which offer a fantastic panorama.

Rovinj is still today a lively and picturesque port, where the majority of its inhabitants is engrossed in fishing and activities connected to tourism.

The city has been for years the most populated of the Istria peninsula, and for a long time it served as bulwark of the Venetian fleet. A testimony of the Venetian influence is the biggest baroque building of the peninsula, the Cathedral of Saint Eufemia, built in 1736. Rovigno

A visit of the Regional Museum is worth, as well as the Arch of Balbi, erected in 1679, with the decoration of a Turkish head on top and a Venetian head inside. Behind the arch there are tortuous and narrow lanes, which represent the main characteristic of a city where Gothic, Baroque, Neoclassical and Renaissance style mix up together. Also worth a visit is the Franciscan Monastery, which hosts a precious library and a small museum with sculptures and paintings dating back to the XVIII century. But above all, the visit of the Aquarium of Rovinj is unmissable, which hosts a rich fishing fauna, from poisonous fish to colourful anemones.

In the city surroundings we recommend a boat excursion on Crveni Otok island, just 1900 metres long, made up of two small islands: Sveti Andrija and Maskin, connected through an elevated road.

The passage through the Lim channel is also spectacular, a fjord 9 km long and just 600 metres high, which came up during the last Glacial Age after the desegregation of a part of the Istrian coast and, consequently, the penetration of the Adriatic Sea in the Draga valley. The fjord walls reach an height of 100 metres, and there are two caves where traces of pre historical settlements were found.