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w Barban in the village are found here, Around 1000 AD, two castles
Map B3. * 250. k Pula, 28 km including the 15th-century were built on neighbouring
(17 miles). £ Pula. @ from Pula. Church of the Annunciation hills and were later enclosed
n Barban 69, (052) 567 420. which contains two paintings by an oval wall. A village of
_ Trka na prstenac, Tournament by Palma il Giovane and an some 200 inhabitants grew
of the Ring (3rd weekend in Aug). Annunciation by Giuseppe up here around the basilica
∑ tz-barban.hr Porto-Salviati. of St Sophia, built between
The Castle dates from the the 11th and 12th centuries.
A free town in the late 13th century and is one of the Although attacked and
Middle Ages, in the 13th best preserved in the region. burned by the Genoese in the
century Barban came It belonged to the Venetian 14th century during the war
under the rule of the families of Castropola, with Venice, the village soon
county of Pazin, and the Morosini and the recovered. In the 17th century,
from 1516 until 1797 Grimani. In 1589, sacking by the Uskoks (see
it was part of Venetian the Grimani p83) and a malaria epidemic
territory. It was commissioned the depopulated the village. It has
granted to the architect Scamozzi not been inhabited since then.
Loredan family in to convert one of the
1535, and many square towers into
buildings acquired Church of the a residence for the
their current Venetian Annunciation, Venetian governors,
look. The town still has Svetvinčenat the other into a
some medieval fortifi- prison. High walls
cations which now incorporate connecting the other two round
several Renaissance buildings. towers enclose a large internal
The Church of St Nicholas courtyard. This is reached
(Sv. Nikola) faces the square, through the citadel’s only gate, Reconstruction of a room in the
which is reached through the which at one time had a Ethnographic Museum, Pazin
Great Gate (Vela Vrata). The drawbridge. The town’s coat of
church has five marble Gothic arms and that of the Grimani r Pazin
altars and many Venetian family can also be seen here.
paintings (16th–18th centuries), The town’s name derives Map B2. * 5,300. £ (052) 624 310.
one attributed to the Italian from the Romanesque church @ (060) 306 040. n Franine i Jurine
artist Padovanino. and cemetery of St Vincent 14, (052) 622 460. ∑ central-istria.
com/pazin
In the same square is the (Sv. Vinčenat), whose walls
Loredan Palace from 1606 and, were frescoed by an unknown
towards the Small Gate (Mala 15th-century artist. The town of Pazin originated
Vrata), the Town Hall, dating in the 9th century as a fort
from 1555. R St Vincent and stands on a cliff 130 m
Outside the Great Gate is Cemetery. Tel (052) 560 004. (426 ft) high. One side of the
the 14th-century Church of Open by appt. cliff falls away to an abyss,
St Anthony (Sv. Antun), with which is 100 m (328 ft) deep
frescoes from the 15th century. Environs and about 20 m (65 ft) wide,
In 1976, the Tournament of About 10 km (6 miles) away and is said to have inspired
the Ring was revived and are the ruins of Dvigrad Dante’s description of the
costumed lancers on horses (Duecastelli), an atmospheric, Gateway to Hell in Inferno,
participate in this traditional abandoned walled village, as well as Jules Verne’s novel
annual event. surrounded by lush vegetation. Mathias Sandorf.
R St Nicholas
Tel (052) 567 173. Open by appt.

e Svetvinčenat
Map A3. * 300. £ Pazin. @ from
Pula. n Svetvinčenat 20, (052) 560
349. ∑ tz-svetvincenat.hr
This walled village was built in
the 10th century on a small hill
around a much restructured
fort. The main square is one
of the most beautiful in Istria.
Many of the main buildings Imposing, overgrown ruins of Dvigrad
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp226–8 and pp238–40

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