Got an email in the a.m. canceling the winery tour we had arranged for today. Bummer. Instead we drove to Pula, at the Southern tip of Istria, and visited the 6th largest Roman amphitheater in the world, and the Temple of Augustus, the oldest building in Croatia. We made our own wine route by visiting [...]
Last night we had a light, but indulgent, dinner with local Istrian wines at the hyper-pretentious Wine Vault restaurant. Today, a visit to the fortified town of Motovun and, later, the "best preserved early Christian cathedral in the world": the Euphrasian Basilica in Poreč. Driving into Rovinj on Monday, we had seen many restaurants roasting [...]
Who knows what's really inside the sarcophagus at St Euphemia church in Rovinj. Maybe it really is the remains of the Saint. Or maybe not. We spend the day exploring the nooks and crannies, and dodging the weather.
We visited the Museo Revoltella, in Trieste, today. It has a great contrast between the original home of Pasquale Revoltella, a 19th C. entrepreneur, and the modern annex showing a collection of mostly Italian artists. I liked: Dopo la prima Comunione, Concetto spaziale - Attes, La canzone nova con parole e musica, and Beethoven. Also [...]
