A beautiful family business awaits everyone visiting the town of Vodnjan, usually known for the excellent extra-virgin olive oil. There is olive oil here too, of course, but the family Buršić is known for its superb prosciutto, sausages, and other dry meat products. Several generations work at an estate that was once the family’s farm and today it hosts a large restaurant, prosciutto tasting room, beautiful small olive grove, and dry-meat production. Every year, the Buršić fa

The symbol of Rijeka is a small black-skinned Arab-looking guy, with a broad smile and Venetian stature, completely alien to anything Rijeka represents today, but somehow still very significant due to the maritime history of the town. Corto Maltese would be proud of Morčić, a chubby and black person wearing a white turban and diamond necklace, an image you would probably thing to find in the Caribbeans or in some places near Malacca Strait. But no, it is the symbol of Rijeka,

The lazy stretch of domestic cats, a few rattles in the tower of the rocks church and unreal peace and quiet surround the heart of the small Istrian town of Roč. Here, in the centre of Istrian Glagolitic tradition, there is a typical Istrian tavern under the simple name Ročka konoba (Roč Tavern). But the typical Istrian taverns mean that it is a unique, blended with its surroundings and a lot of homely atmosphere that the family Stefanovic has been providing for many years no