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Today we start with a new heading of posts under the name “3 interesting facts” where we will from time to time bring three interesting facts related to our destinations and regions. In the first part we have singled out the following facts relating to Istria:

(1) Did you know that also Istria has its own “Stonehenge” ? If you didn’t, well you are about to find out. It is a range of hills Mordela and Picuga in the hinterland of Pore? where stone blocks can be found that indicate to existence of a civilization that lived on this area long before the time of the Histris, a tribe we have already mention in our posts. Namely, the oldest findings on the area of Mordela are 4000 years old! There is a great number of theories on the emergence of the circular setting of stones, and those that have been formed in Istria bear great resemblance to their “Stonehenge brothers” in Breat Britain. You can find out more on this in a separate post that we’ll put on the blog soon.

(2) Did you know what exactly was kažun used for, a small circular stone construction, the replica of which can nowadays be found in almost every Istrian souvenir shop? People used to build kažun in fields, whereas it was used as shelter, respectively as a place to store tools. Beside that, kažun (casita) was used for overlooking of fields and vineyards before harvesting and vintage because one had to protect the yield from acts of thefts that were frequent at that time.

(3) Did you know that Ro? and Hum were the centres of the Glagolithic movement in Istria? Glagolithic is an old script that originates from the year 863, when the Byzantine emperor sent Cyril and Methodius to Moravia to spread Christianity among Slavic immigrants. Glagolithic alphabet was created because translating liturgy books in Latin an greek had proven inefficient, and Cyril decided to create a new script that was spread by his disciples parallel with faith. It is interesting to mention that the Glagolithic script had preserved longest among Croats in Istria and Primorje.

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