Rovinj (Rovigno in Italian) is coastal Istria’s star attractive feature. While it could get overflowed with travelers in summer, and inhabitants are developing a bright eye for maximising earnings by improving hotels and restaurants to four star position, it keeps to be one of the last true Mediterranean fishing ports. Fishers draw their catch into the harbour in the early morning hours, followed by a horde of squawking gulls, and mend their nets before lunch. Appeals for a great catch are sent forth at the large Church of St Euphemia, with its sixty m-high tower accentuating the peninsula. Wooded hills and low-rise hotels surround the old town interconnected by steep, cobbled streets and piazzas. The thirteen green, offshore islands of the Rovinj archipelago make for a pleasant afternoon away, and you can swim from the rocks in the sparkling water below Hotel Rovinj.
The old town of Rovinj is comprised within an egg-shaped peninsula, with the bus station just to the south-east. There are two harbours: the northern open harbour and the little, protected harbour to the south. About 1.5 kilometers south of the old town is the Punta Corrente Forest Park and the wooded cape of Zlatni Rt (Golden Cape), with its age-old oak and pine trees, and a number of large hotels. A little archipelago lies just offshore; the most favorite islands are Crveni Otok (Red Island), Sveta Katarina and Sveti Andrija.
Sights in Rovinj: Church of St Euphemia
The town’s show window is the imposing church towering the old town from its hilltop placement in center of the peninsula. Built in 1736, it’s the largest baroque construction in Istria, reflecting the period during the 18th century when Rovinj was its most settled town. Inside the church, look for the marble tomb of St Euphemia behind the right-hand altar. Rovinj’s patron saint was tormented for her Christian faith by Emperor Diocletian before being given to the lions in 304. According to legend, the body vanished one dark and stormy night only to show up off the coast of Rovinj in a spectral boat. The townspeople were unable to budge the heavy sarcophagus until a tiny boy appeared with two calves and moved it to the top of the hill, where it still stands in the present-day church. On the day of remembrance of her martyrdom (16 September), devotees converge here. Molded on the campanile of St Mark’s in Venice, the 60 meter bell tower is crowned by a copper statue of St Euphemia, which points the direction of the wind by spinning on a spindle.
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