When you pass the tunnel through rocky Ucka, you will be blinded by colour contrast in the Istrian county: bright red soil, cold grey stone, intersected with dark velvet-like green Mediterranean vegetation, framed with azure blue sky and aquamarine deep blue shades of sea. Located with all its area of 2,813 km2 on the territory of Istria, the largest Croatian peninsula, deeply immersed into the Adriatic sea, it is bordered towards the continental part of Croatia with Cicarije in the north and Ucka in the east. Although not the largest and not the most developed in terms of economy, the town of Pazin, due to its geographic location, became the administrative centre of the county. Very well preserved monuments of Roman culture in coastal cities (Pula, Porec, Rovinj), and medieval sacral and secular architecture (Beram, Groznjan, Motovun) offer the possibility of ext...

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