Porec old town is a tourist stage: the place where you can learn from the monuments of the past, reading the face of the house is of stone slabs which paved street built during the Roman era.
Porec, Porec, Latin - Parentium. In dvomilenijskoj turbulent past of the city as it swept the whole European history: Romans, Aquileia, Huns, Byzantines, Slavs, Avars, Ostrogoths, Lombards, Franks, Venice, Napoleon, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Yugoslavia - now Croatia. This town-peninsula has been inhabited in prehistoric times. In its current form was invented by the Romans two millennia ago, after they conquered the indigenous Histris. The city's first military camp, then a fortified city, that grew into a major administrative and economic center, called Colonia Iulia Parentium.
To this day Porec has kept a clear ancient urban layout, and the two main streets of the old city today, just as two thousand years ago, bearing the name Decumanus and Cardo Maximus. There is a large square - forum, among which are the remains of the temple Martovog and Neptune.
Unique monument is Eufrazijana, Christian cathedral, but there are many other eloquent witnesses to 2000 years long history.
Historical center of Porec and place a variety of entertainment. Ancient Decumanus, the main Old Town street in the summer months is a must for walking. If you have not planned anything special, something will surely arouse the attention of: lapidarium jazz or classical music concert at the Basilica, summer cocktail on the ancient square Marafor, or simply watching the river of people with whom we passed each other. Everywhere in the old city make, every place has a special charm because it pulsates and long times past and modernity. And some of the streets and squares are the stage for a summer street art.
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