A Street With No Name...
by coceng
My fondest memory would be walking around Rovinj...letting myself lost in this beautiful place...
There's also a stretch of sreet where they are shops, selling whatever you desire in life....but the normal streets not chartered by many people will always be my favourite sight...
You have to do your own excursions around the streets in Rovinj because it''s hardly changed for the last century or so.
Amazing place !
The photo shows a junction of 2 streets which are near to the New Town, as you walk deeper into the Old Town, the streets are paved with cobble-stones (as you can see from my 'must see' tips...) which I love most !
Vladimira Svalbo street
by JLBG
Vladimira Svalbo Ulica is the street that allows to walk from Valdibora Trg and the city market up to Saint Euphemia cathedral. The old pavement has been walked for centuries and now is very smooth, beautiful but highly slippery.
Bell-Tower of St. Euphemia
by croisbeauty
The bell-tower of St. Euphemia's Church, the city's patron saint, is 59 m high and resembles the campanile of San Marco's basilica in Venice. A statue of St. Euphemia, several meters high, is placed on the top of the bell-tower, set there in 1758 and restored in 1996.
Hvala or Grazie ? Linguistic Confusion
by Ekaterinburg
The following is an extract from a conversation the driver on the Rovinj-Trieste bus was having at 7.50 a.m."Dobro,dobro, OK,OK, ciao, ciao." Sense the confusion ? I had tried to learn a few words and phrases in Croatian before I left home but in Rovinj there was absolutely no need for them. Italian seemed to be the language most spoken and even the street signs are bi-lingual. It seems everybody is bi-lingual and a lot of people spoke a fair smattering of English and German in addition. The waiter at the Amfora spoke Polish as well and I suspect that most people here speak at least three languages. Unlike other countries I can think of, this does not seem to be a problem for anyone and it forces me to think uncharitably of my own country, where people recently vandalised all the road signs when the name of a town was officially changed from English to Gaelic. Rovinj is generally acknowledged as the town with most Italian influences on the coast and when we travelled inland we heard less Italian and more Croatian. All the young people I spoke to in Croatia had really good english. This, they told me, was just from high-school english and not private lesons. I was very impressed with the linguistic skills of the people in Istria. In Ireland we could certainly do with taking several leaves from their book.
Another close-up
by JLBG
Once you are on top of the campanile, it is difficult to choose what to look at, and what to photograph. The view is breathtaking and everything is so interesting ! My only regret is that I have not brought a small telescope ! Next time !
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Narrow building by Trg Marsala Tita
Inside nave of the church
Inside of the arch-looking out to clock
View of church and campenile
