Bale Things to Do

Between the church and the campanile, the piazzetta is an island on greenery with another cypress, cedar trees and oleander. That makes a pleasant contrast with the white stone face of the houses and of the church.

The campanile of Saint Julian church is on top of the hill, on the small piazzetta. Dark green cypresses, shaped as other campaniles, make a pleasant duplicate of the luminous stone white campanile. The campanile was built at the same time than the church, in 1880.

In the paved yard of a semi-abandoned house, there appears an old well. Grass grows so well that the paved yards would look almost like a lawn if it were trimmed ! Some have hard time growing a nice lawn, here, it grows alone between the pavements, without being watered !

On the piazzetta, in front of the church, everything is very quiet and people live more outside their house than inside. There are no car, no tourists. Wouldn't you like to be there ? Discreetly, not to disturb !

These stone stairs climb along Saint Julian church, and lead to the main entrance of the church, on a peaceful little piazzeta with old trees and flowers. You can also reach the piazetta by a street that turns around the church, on the right.

Saint Julian (San Zuian in dialect), the parochial church, was built in 1880 on the place of a previous Romanesque church built in the 9th century. A part of the crypt has been preserved and can be visited. Inside is a sarcophagi from the 8th century and a painting attributed to Matej Poncun.

Smaller passages connect the Grisa and the Kastel. The houses often spread out, people install chairs and tables right across the street and live in the street which is a place for communication between neighbors. It is very relaxing that no car can come here.

Most of the houses that are on the Grisa, are decorated with flowers. The plants grow either in pots or in full earth. Oleander is very common and always grow very well but various vines climb to the top of the houses.