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Tips for Walkers
Departure point: Boljun.
Distance: 77 km (48 miles)
one way. Stopping-off points:
Motovun Konoba Mondo,
(052) 681 791 (restaurant);
Hum Humska Konoba, (052) 660
005 (restau rant); Buzet Restaurant
Toklarija, (091) 926 67 69;
n Buzet Šetalište Vladimira
2 Roč Gortana 9, (052) 662 343.
The wall around Roč was built by the Patriarchate of Aquileia Motovun Trg Andrea Antico 1,
in the 14th century. Towers were added in the 1500s. Roč was (052) 681 726. Poreč Istria Tourist
an important centre for Glagolitic writing and in the 1200s the Board, Pionirska 1, Poreč, (052)
alphabet was carved on a wall in the Church of St Anthony Abbot. 452 797.
The Romanesque Church of St Roch contains two fresco cycles.

Ročko Polje
J
1 Boljun
The village still has some of its medieval walls, the
16th-century ramparts, a tower and a water
trough from 1697. The grain store, loggia and the
RomanesqueChurch of SS Cosmas and Damian
J Lupoglav are on the main road. Gothic paintings can be
seen in the 14th-century Church of St Peter.

Dolenja Vas J

Vranja
Opatija

Pazin

The Trail of Glagolitic Documents
The “Glagolitic Alley” (Aleja Glagoljaša) winds between Roč and
Hum. It is 7 km (4 miles) long and was created from 1977 to 1985
to commemorate this ancient Slavic script. Along the way are
11 significant Glagolitic documents recalling events and people who
contributed to the spread of the writing, invented in the 9th century
by the saints Cyril and Methodius to translate the scriptures into Glagolitic document in stone on
Slavonic in order to disseminate Christian liturgy among Slav peoples. the trail to Roč

For keys to symbols see back flap

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