Town Poreč

City Poreč is almost 2,000 years old, and is based on a harbour protected from the sea by the small island of Sveti Nikola (Saint Nicholas).

The city ground plan still shows ancient Roman Castrum structure. Marafor is Roman square with two temples attached. One of them, erected in the first century AD, is dedicated to the Roman god Neptune with dimensions of 30 m by 11 m.

Few houses from the Romanesque period have ere preserved and beautiful Venetian Gothic palaces could be seen here.

Originally Gothic, Franciscan church built in 13th century, Istrian Assembly Hall was made into Baroque style in 18th century. The complex of Euphrasian Basilica, (5th century), for the first time extended in the 6th century under the Byzantine Empire and bishop Euphrasius), is the most important object protected as the monument of the world heritage by UNESCO in 1997.

Between the 12th and the 19th century, the city had the defensive walls, the same kind the better known Dubrovnik still does today.