One of Istria’s best restaurants, this 28-seat tavern – located down an unlikely lane near the harbour in Novigrad – is famous for its twitchingly fresh, raw-fish specialties. The Mediterranean-style sashimi is particularly good. Be sure to book ahead in summer.
Damir & Ornella
Istria's West Coast
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
21.34 MILES
What attracts most people to this little church is the famous Dance of Death or Danse Macabre, a fresco that shows 11 skeletons leading the same number of…
6.32 MILES
Top billing in Poreč goes to the 6th-century Euphrasian Basilica, a World Heritage Site and one of Europe’s finest intact examples of Byzantine art. Built…
28.82 MILES
The stud farm can be visited on very popular, 50-minute guided tours. The interesting, informative tours are available in a number of languages; a tour…
27.66 MILES
Sitting on a rocky outcrop 7km from Trieste, Castello di Miramare is the city's elegiac bookend, the fanciful neo-Gothic home of the hapless Archduke…
24.85 MILES
This extraordinary house-museum was the home of wealthy Triestini merchant Pasquale Revoltella, who made his fortune in the timber industry and had a hand…
27.48 MILES
Situated on an island in the lagoon, the Barbana sanctuary is an ancient shrine, the origins of which date back to 582. The current church dates to the…
25.35 MILES
Constructed from pearly white Istrian stone in 1868, the Serbian Orthodox church has a typical Byzantine style, its large central dome flanked by four…
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14.62 MILES
The pastel-toned Tartinijev trg is a marble-paved square (oval, really) that was the inner harbour until it was filled in 1894. The statue of a nattily…
Nearby Istria's West Coast attractions
5.94 MILES
Within easy reach of Poreč, Baredine Cave has subterranean chambers with stalagmites and stalactites. The standard admission is by way of a 30-minute…
5.94 MILES
This winery, 12km northeast of Poreč, produces some of Istria's finest reds and whites. Its malvazija is of particularly high quality, and it also…
6.3 MILES
Dating from the 1st century AD, only fragments of this great Roman temple, dedicated to the sea god, have survived.
6.31 MILES
The Roman Forum, where public gatherings took place, once stood on the site of the present-day Trg Marafor. The original pavement has been preserved along…
6.32 MILES
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6.37 MILES
A ruined Venetian tower, located in the northeast corner of the old town.
6.4 MILES
One of the Venetian towers, flanking the main entrance to the old town.
6.43 MILES
One of the city's Venetian-era towers; it once guarded the southeastern section of the city.