Culture & history in Istria

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Fort San Giorgio is a fortress on the hill of the same name in Pula in Istria, near the municipal cemetery. Austria had it built in the 19th century to protect the main harbour of its navy.

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Fortress in Pula, Croatia.

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Fortress in Croatia.

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Fort Turtian is a coastal fortress in the village of Šikići near Pula in Istria. The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy built it in the late 19th century to protect the main harbour of its navy.

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Fort Punta Christo is an Austro-Hungarian fortification on the Kristo peninsula in the area of the city of Pula in Istria, near Štinjan. Originally, a Martello tower was built on this site in 1833, which was later expanded into a heavily armed and armoured fortress.

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Fort Casoni Vecchi, also known as Fort Monte Paradiso, is a fortified tower on a hill near Pula in Istria. The Austrian Empire built it in 1853 and 1854 to protect the main war harbour of its navy.

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Fort Bourguignon, also called Fort Monsival, is a fortification in Pula, Istria. It was built in 1861 and belongs to the numerous fortifications that the Austrian Empire had constructed around the city in the 19th century.

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Fort Verudella is a coastal fortress on the Verudela peninsula near Pula in Istria. Austria built it at the end of the 19th century to protect the main harbour of its navy.

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The Arena Pula is a Roman amphitheatre in the city of Pula in Istria and is one of the best-preserved from antiquity. Its facade of white limestone remains largely in its original state, with two rows of arches and an upper storey with window niches.

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The Small Roman Theatre is located in Pula on the eastern flank of the town hill, below the old castrum. It probably dates from the 1st century and used the slope for its tiers of seats.

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The Temple of Augustus is a Roman temple in the Republic Square in Pula, which the residents also call the Forum. It was built under Emperor Augustus and was dedicated to the emperor and the goddess Roma.

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Archaeological site in Croatia.

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The Small Roman Theatre is located in Pula on the eastern flank of the town hill, below the old castrum. Remains of the foundations of the stage building and parts of the semicircular auditorium survive, some of which have been partly reconstructed.

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Bronze Age hill fort, located near Rovinj, Istria, Croatia.

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Krkavški kamen is a megalith in Istria, near Kaštel. The archaeological site is among the cultural monuments of Slovenia.

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Archaeological site in Municipality of Izola, Slovenia.

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2nd-century Roman city gate in Pula, Croatia.

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The Herculean Gate (Croatian Herkulova vrata, Italian Porta Ercole) is a Roman city gate in Pula, Istria. It is considered the oldest surviving monument of Roman architecture in the city and was built, according to sources, in the middle of the 1st century BC.

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Arch in Rovinj, Croatia.

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Prva Rasporska vrata are a historic town gate in Istria, near Kaštel. The gate is protected as a monument of local significance.

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The Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary is located in Pula, on the south side of the bay, at the foot of the hill with the Venetian fortress. It is a Catholic cathedral and, alongside the Euphrasian Basilica, one of the two episcopal seats of the Diocese of Poreč and Pula.

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Church building in Pula, Croatia.

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The Church of St. Blaise is a Roman Catholic church in Vodnjan in Istria and is protected as a historic monument.

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Church in Vodnjan, Croatia.

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The Sveti Duh (Holy Spirit) Church is a small church in Bale, a town on a hill in the interior of Istria. It dates from the 16th century.

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The Church of St Martin is a three-aisled basilica with three apses in the old town of Sveti Lovreč in Istria. It is considered one of the oldest Romanesque buildings on the peninsula and the largest Romanesque church in Istria.

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Ancient Histri village.

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Museum in Croatia.

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The Historical and Maritime Museum of Istria is located in Pula on the highest hill of the city, in a converted Venetian fortress between the sea and the hills around Arena, Zara and Sv. Mihovil.

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Open-air museum in Vodnjan, Croatia.

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First ecomuseum in Croatia.

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The monument to the fighters of the People's Liberation Struggle and the victims of fascism is a sculpture group by the sculptor Vanja Radauš in Titov park, directly on the waterfront promenade in Pula. On the sea side, in front of a stone wall, it shows two groups of naked, dying men; on the back of the white stone wall stands a female figure as a mother holding an apple in her hand.

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Triumphal arch dedicated by Salvia Postuma at Pula.

The Spomenik padlim v NOB is a memorial site near Grožnjan in Istria. The monument is classified as a monument of local significance.

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Building in Rovigno, Croatia.

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