Cingarela cave /waterfall – “Gypsy”

In 1953 remains were found from prehistoric times, and it became clear that the cave was inhabited in the Neolithic, Eneolithic  and Bronze Age (11.000 BC -600 BC).


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Name: Cingarela waterfalls and caves

Place:  Momjan – (Buje)

Coordinates entrance path left side of river Ardila: 45.43585 N – 13.67597 E , Caves and Waterfall. 45.43566 N – 13.68462 E.

Prehistoric settlement Vintijan

On the hill Gradina Vintijan are the ruins of a hill-fort with a former diameter of about 100 meters. This settlement is from the Histri-period (Iron-Age). The pictures with a view on the Veruda-bay and Pula are from the top of this hill.

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Name: Prehistoric settlement

Place: Gradina Vintijan – (Medulin)

Coordinates: 44.84668 N – 13.85479 E

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

 

Vizace – “Nesactium”

Nesactium was an important town in the Istrian history. It was the capital of the Histri’s tribe, before the Roman conquered the peninsula . The final battle happened in the second century B.C. in Nesactium.

A lot of research was done around 1900 and the 20th century. They found the ruins, a large Histrian necropolis, with numerous ceramic urns and rich burial offerings of imported painted vessels. Interesting is that the most of the objects belonged to the 9th – 6th century BC, and belonged to another Mediterranean cultures, like Greek.

Nesactium was conquered in 178-177 BC by the Roman Consul Claudio Pulcro. The Roman chronician Tito Livio described that the King of Histri, stabbed him selves, and that the soldiers, their wives and children were killed and threw from the walls just to avoid to become Roman slaves, and that 8000 people of the Histri and 200 Roman soldiers died.

After the Roman conquest of Nesactium the town was an important centre,  until the  times of the Emperor Augustus.

The town falls in ruins after the destructive inroads of Slavs and Avars in the 6th and 7th century.

Later on the name is probably changed in Vizace. To day there are relics, the walls of the prehistoric hillfort, buildings from the roman period and two churches from the 5th century.

Place: Vizace – Ližnjan