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Theme Week Istria – Pore?

26 June 2014 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Pore? is a town and municipality on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula. Its major landmark is the 6th century Euphrasian Basilica, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997. Ever since the 1970s, the coast of Pore? has been the most visited tourist destination in Croatia. Pore? is almost 2,000 years old, and is set around a harbor protected from the sea by the small island of Saint Nicholas/San Nicolo (St. Nicholas). The town’s population of approximately 12,000 resides mostly on the outskirts, while the wider Pore? area has a population of approximately 17,000 inhabitants. The municipal area covers 142 square kilometres (55 sq mi), with the 37 kilometres (23 miles) long shoreline stretching from the Mirna River near Novigrad to Funtana and Vrsar in the south.   read more…