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Arheoloski muzej Istre
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  • Arheoloski muzej Istre - Pula
    Arheoloski muzej Istre
    by montezaro
    Arheološki muzej Istre, Archaeological Museum of Istra, is the place where you can learn more about the history of the Istria region. It displays valuable exibits, from pre-historic times, Illyric times to Roman times of Istria when the city of Pula became very important place in the imperium.
    Do not miss it when visiting Pula.

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    James Joyce
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  • the statue to James Joyce - Pula
    the statue to James Joyce
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    The great world wide known Irish writer have spend a part of his life in the town of Pula teaching English language. The school was right next to the famous Arch of Sergeius Family, also the apartment where James Joyce were lived.
    A foot of his home there was an cafe-bar, at the very same spot where the new one was reopened, and it was the writer favorite place where he used to spend hours watching locals passing by.
    Nowadays, here stands the statue of James Joyce, great writer sitting in the shadow of the ancient Roman Arch, do not miss it when visiting Pula.

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    Ready for the big laundry !
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  • Updated By JLBG on November 21, 2004
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  • Pula Local Customs
    by JLBG
    Some of these "barracks looking building" were equipped with huge wires for drying the laundry that made a kind of cobweb. If you click on the picture to enlarge it, you will see them more clearly. Only a few of them were in use when I took the picture. When it is big laundry day, the sight must be really amazing. I had never seen so many wires !

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    Our Lady of the Sea church
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  • Updated By JLBG on January 28, 2005
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    by JLBG
    Driving to Milan from the city center by the right way, we found this imposing church. It does not seem very old and is not mentioned in any of my guidebooks, but I felt it was aesthetic and looked pretty. Thanks to boris VT Croisbeauty that identified it for me and gave the following comment.

    This huge church, situated on the hill of St. Polycarp, is called Our Lady of the Sea, colloquially known as Mornaricka crkva (the navy church). It is three-nave basilica and has the plan of a Latin cross with a semi-circular apse. The church was built (1891-1898) in mixed neo-Romanesque and neo-Byzantine styles. The walls are built of alternating white Istrian stone and red marble.

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    New Pula
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  • Updated By JLBG on November 21, 2004
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    by JLBG
    This picture shows in the background the buildings of the new part of Pula, in the South of the old city. We have not visited it (sorry Niksa !) but may be we will do it next time ! As this seems to be really new, there might have some architectural interest. To be followed !

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    Venetian styled Palace
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  • Venecijanska palaca u Kandlerovoj - Pula
    Venecijanska palaca u
    Kandlerovoj
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    Being a very important military port throughout the passing centuries, the town of Pula have suffered of the major distractions from the air, especially in the WW II. There are not much of the palaces left in the old core of the town.
    This Venetian styled palace is situated in the Kandlerova street, just a foot from the Forum and the Cathedral.

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    FINA
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  • zgrada na Giardinima - Pula
    zgrada na Giardinima
    by croisbeauty, 1 more photos
    This is one of the most impressive building in Pula, built in neo-classical style and situated on the Main Square of the town, colloqially called Giardini (means gardens in Italian).
    First it was Italian Bank - the building was donation of the Italian Government under the rule of Mussolini - nowadays it is an Financial institution of the Croatian Government.

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    The Archaeological Museum
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  • The Archaeological Museum of Istria - Pula
    The Archaeological Museum of
    Istria
    by croisbeauty
    The Museum was established in 1925, in the building of the former German grammar school.
    The museum holds prehistoric exibition with exibits from Palaeolithic to the Bronze, monuments of the Roman material culture, and Olive and Vine growing in Istria in antiquity.

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    Fountain and sewer man-holes made of gold
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  • Updated By JLBG on November 21, 2004
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    by JLBG
    This fountain flows near the city market, which is in the background. Just behind the fountain, if you enlarge the picture, you can see three of these sewer man-holes made of might-have-been-gold I presented as a close-up in the introduction !

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    Close-up on Our Lady of the Sea church
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  • Updated By JLBG on November 21, 2004
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    by JLBG
    As it was very hot, we sat at a terrace to sip a beer. As it was in front of this church, that is why I had plenty of time to take several photos ! As you can see, modern frescoes have been painted in some of the niches.

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