Hiking path around “Stari Guran”. Archaeological site and three churches from the middle ages.

  1. Church St. Cecilija from the middle ages. Pictures DSCN 9349 – 9352. Coordinates: 44.9756 N – 13.88792 E
  2. Church three nave baselica Guran  from late 8th century. Pictures DSCN  9364 – 9370. Coordinates: 44.97047 N – 13.89554 E
  3. Archaeological site. Pictures DSCN 9372 – 9378.  Coordinates: 44.97121 N – 13.87081 E.
  4. Church St. Simon from 8th -11th century. Pictures DSCN 9379 – 9384. Coordinates: 44.96506 N – 13.89599 E.

 

Name: Hiking path around ” Stari Guran”.

Place: Cecilija – Guran – ( Vodnjan)

Archaeological research Novigrad

During archaeological research an older fortification wall was established at a distance of 6 meters within the existing shore from the 13th Century. This wall parallel to the existing wall has a thickness of 200-220 cm, built in the 7th Century, and separated by a passage, which was later used for the graves of deceased.

Name: Fortification wall

Place: Novigrad

 

Ljubic’s cave – Marčana

This cave is situated  about 1,3 kilometers north of Marčana and has several cave rooms and pits, interconnected by channels.

The cave is developed in the limestone of the cretaceous  age (approximately 144 till 65 million years ago). This karst phenomenon was created by the action of water enriched with carbon dioxide that dissolved the mineral calcite in the limestone.

On basis of  archaeological research in 1991 when the found ceramics and bones was concluded that people lived in the cave in the Neolithic age (about 10000 years BC) till the Bronze age (2nd millennium BC).

Name: Ljubičeva cava

Place: Marčana