Bale is situated on a hilltop named Mon Perin. In the beginning it was a prehistoric settlement and later on a Roman settlement, Castrum Valles and connected to the Roman Consular road Via Flavia.
The village was in the beginning surrounded in the 7th century by stone walls which are 8 to 10 meters high.
Bale is special known by the Bembo – Soardo castle, with a residental part built by the family Soardo in the 15th century, between the two towers of the 7th century. In the castle lived the family Bembo from Venice, after a marriage with a son of the Soardo family, since the 17th century.
Inside the wall is a main circular street on which is situated the Baroque Parish Church of Virgin Mary Visits on the place of four older churches. In the church is a wooden Romanesque wooden crucifix.
Opposite the castle is the Municipal palace with a loggia from the 14th century.
The other churches in Bale are: the Church of St. Helen in the northern part from the 18th century, the medieval church with bell tower of St. Elias from the early middle ages, the cemetery Church of St. Anthony the Abot from the 15th century and the Church of the Holy Spirit from the 15th century with frescoes.
A few churches in the vicinity are St. Maro from the 7th century, St. Michael’s church erected on the remnants of a monastery, and St. Peter on the Top from the 14th century initiated by the Bishop of Poreč.
Date: 07-11-2012
Date: 15-02-2016
Date: 23-02-107
Name: Church St. Peter on the Top
Name: St. Michael’s Church
Name: Lapidary Parish Church St. Mary Visits
Place: Bale