ISTRIA SLOVENIA Koper Izola Piran Portorož
ISTRIA SLOVENIA Koper Izola Piran Portorož www.slovenia.info Slovenian Istria A place where you start to write the story of your own experience. First-hand experience and photo- atmosphere can be felt in cobbled graphs tell the story of Slovenian streets, squares, churches, houses Istria better than words. The eye and in the vibrations of everyday life. glistens with excitement, the soul yearns to travel. Travelling to this Istrian people tell the story of their part of the world is possible by road, homeland. They live in harmony with by rail, by sea and by air. Slovenian the soil, not always hospitable, yet Istria is located on the meeting point rewarding hard work. They are fortu- of the Karst edge to the east, the nate to enjoy a moderate climate nevertheless quite various when you Adriatic Sea to the west and the with mild winters and warm summers, look at the picturesque landscape Bay of St. Bartholomew to the north. enabling them to grow olive trees, of Šavrinski hills, Bržanija, the Karst It borders on two neighbouring coun- vines and many different kinds of edge and 47 kilometres of coastline. tries: Italy and Croatia, and is home to fruit, the basis of Istrian cuisine, not They each have special features but people of different nationalities. extravagant but a simple and healthy they are all part of Slovenia's attrac- The stories of Slovenian Istria stretch culinary and oenological art of food tive seaside tourist resorts, famous a long way back to the times of preparation. Fishing used to be an for their diversity, unspoilt the Roman Empire and further.
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