CASTLE BELAJ – HISTORICAL HERITAGE

ISTRIADUCTION  All Year | Working time: 12-23h, except Monday | Free Entrance Castle Belaj (Bellai) estate contains: Castle(XVI century);Left annex with history of presence there of court, prison and the wine cellar (XIX century); right annex, where the stables and management room of the estate; historical vineyard of 11 hectares, which surrounds the estate. Excellent benefits of the soil and microclimate of the hill were recognised in the XVII. century when the cultivation of olives and grapevines started. At that time wine production was focused on delivering great wines to Vienna and Bordeaux. Nowadays Belaj is the only Château in Croatia with a lengthy history and traditions of winemaking. It's a registered Historical Heritage Two Families - Two Wineries - One Estate Dvorac Belaj: Dvorac Belaj winery established in 2011 by Belay family. From that on we produce wine only from the historical Vineyard around the property. First Vintages are produced with the help of Gianfranko Kozlovic and Ivica Matosevic winemaking craftwork. From 2016 production is fully moved into Belaj cellars. Every year Dvorac Belaj wines brings Golden and Silver medals from Decanter and Vinistra wine competitions. For more info about the winery: www.dvoracbelaj.com Podrum Belaj: Podrum Belaj winery is established in 1998 by Ivic family. The history of winemaking in

2024-02-20T08:38:44+00:00By |Cerovlje, Gastro, Pets, Sights|

ELEGANT WALK THROUGH ISTRIAN HOLLYWOOD IN DRAGUĆ

ISTRIADUCTION  All Year | No Working time| Free Entrance Did you know that Draguć is known as a place where numerous films have been made in which it played the part of middle ages cities. Draguć was Florence in a movie Libertas, La Femme Musketeer with Nastassa Kinski, Gerard Depardieu, Melita and more. Take a walk through Draguć with elegant B&W tone and met friendly people. Tips: because the bar is closed after 20:00h try to get there before if you want to drink something. MORE ISTRIAGO COLLECTIONS

2022-03-11T13:58:37+00:00By |Cerovlje, Free, Pets, Sights, |

ROASTED GOLD POTATOES UNDER THE BAKING LID IN BORUT NEAR CEROVLJE

ISTRIADUCTION  All Year | Working time: As Agreed | Free Entrance First of all, it is necessary to announce the arrival because the restaurant works by appointment. The second thing you should know your menu so that they can prepare the food fresh and in time saved. The third thing when you arrive at "Stara Štala" you have an interesting ride through the little-undiscovered villages. After you've been doing formalities, you come to a place that will fill you with the warmth of domestic products.  We ordered the veal with roasted gold potatoes under the baking lid. Those gold potatoes are still shining, it was delicious. But for the starter, we had domestic Sausage, "Pršut", Dried pancetta, and cheese.  After the starter, we continued on homemade gnocchi and ravioli with mushrooms. The main star of the evening is, however, a dish under the lid. The veal with roasted gold potatoes under the baking lid was delicious and good prepared. How excellent food does not go without wine we decided to try white wine and red wine to relax a bit further. "Has anything to do for dessert?" "So you did not announce anything!" was the answer. But the pleasant

2024-01-09T10:57:36+00:00By |Cerovlje, Free, Gastro, |

RUMP STEAK NEXT TO THE RAIL IN THE 2. PERON IN CEROVLJE

ISTRIADUCTION  All Year| Working time: 12-23h | Free Entrance 2. Peron is the small restaurant next to the rail in Cerovlje. First of all, there is an open terrace for warmer months and cozy inside with open camino fireplace.  On the menu are a wide range of starters, homemade pasta, pizza and especially meat on the open fireplace. Nicely decorated facility in style of the old history train station. We must say that there is friendly and helpful staff, ready to accommodate with special requirements in a combination of dishes include very good open wines. The biggest value that you can get is reasonable prices for high-quality food. We had perfect dinner at this cute place. Everything we had was very delicious from prosciutto to the dessert and prices were reasonable. We will visit this place again. MORE ISTRIAGO COLLECTIONS

2024-07-03T09:54:15+00:00By |Cerovlje, Free, Gastro, |

BEAUTIFULL SMALL VILLAGE CALLED GOLOGORICA NEAR PAZIN

ISTRIADUCTION  All Year | Working time: 0-24h | Free Entrance   Before you enter the main gate you will notice on your right side gate build in 1759. Once you enter the village you will see in front of you the Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul from the 17th century. Standing on the square, in front of the Parish Church, on your left side you will note the most interesting building in Gologorica. This was the house of De Franceschi family and was built in 1711.On the hilltop going back from main gate, on the left side you will also see the smaller Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary dating back to the Romanesque period. It houses Gothic frescoes made around 1400. Gologorica is also known for the agritourism Gologoricki Dol that is located in Lukacici in the Gologoricki Dol (Gologorica Valley). https://www.istriago.net/agritourism-dol-sets-standards-rural-tourism-gologoricki-dol/   [fusion_map address="latlng=45.25872845711292,14.034708018880337" type="roadmap" zoom="10" scrollwheel="yes" scale="yes" zoom_pancontrol="yes" animation="no" popup="yes" map_style="default" infobox="default" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" /] MORE ISTRIAGO COLLECTIONS

2020-02-04T07:27:19+00:00By |Cerovlje, Free, Pets, Sights, |

DRAGUĆ – PITORESQUE JEWELL OF CENTRAL ISTRIA

ISTRIADUCTION All Year| No Working time| Free Entrance Behind seven hills, in the deepest inland of Istra, half way between Pazin and Buzet suddenly emerges - Draguć. Situated in the middle of nowhere, squeezed on the ridge of a hill, it simply allures you with its harmonious ancient perspective. Draguć as we know it today was formed around the homonymous medieval castle, which is nowadays almost completely incorporated in the architectural structure of the later periods. Mentioned in 1102 as deed of conveyance by the Istrian Margrave Ulrich to the Aquileia Patriarchs, later as part of the future Pazin County it belonged to the Counts of Gorica and finally to the Habsburgs. The town was attacked while the settlement surrounding the Castle was burnt and destroyed by both Ottomans and Venetians, and when it eventually came under the reign of Venice, – Uskoks and Austrians did the same. What wars had begun the plague continued on more occasions and in 1855 cholera put the end to it having decimated the population. That the town survived is a pure miracle just as it is the fact that so much has been preserved up to the present

2022-03-11T13:53:42+00:00By |Cerovlje, Free, Pets, Sights, |

AGRITOURISM DOL SETS THE STANDARDS FOR RURAL TOURISM IN GOLOGORIČKI DOL

ISTRIADUCTION All Year | Working time:By announcement| Free Entrance   Agritourism Dol is a beautiful story of the family Stojšić. A gastro place where you can enjoy the traditional food from Istria and feel the untouched nature with animals. Dol prepares for you menus from local products in a relaxing environment. Menus are all fresh and they recommend for appetizer delicatessen, delicious soup with homemade bread.The menu has a wide range of pasta and meat from gnocchi, ravioli to Istrian Sausage and Istrian beef Boškarin. There you can try perfect homemade ravioli in sauce of  the traditional Istrian cattle Boškarin. For dessert we tried pancakes with skuta cheese and caramel and with different flavors of marmalade. After food goes Rakija with 11 erbs to help our stoamach breath. After lunch take a day out for a walk in untouched nature and play with the animals like black pig, friendly goat and traditional Istrian cattle Boškarin. MORE ISTRIAGO COLLECTIONS

2022-03-11T13:43:37+00:00By |Cerovlje, Free, Gastro, |

SWEET MEMORIES –TRADITIONAL GRANDMA RAVIOLI

ISTRIADUCTION Saturday morning jumped out of bed and put on my clothes. Got in my car and raced like I’m driving Formula 1, all the way to Grandma House. Knocked on the door with smile on my face looking at the Grandma place, Paz - Cerovlje. (Remix version of Magic – Rude) Hello, sweet child of mine, come on in and let’s make Ravioli with cheese. I’m going to show you how Grandma does it. Before we start wash your hands, put an apron and let’s get ready to rumble! It is Grandma home so you should know before we start there is going to be a plenty of Ravioli at the end, nobody is going home hungry. First we need to make Ravioli dough. Place flour mixture on a board (1kg.), making a well in the center of the flour. Beat the eggs (2 eggs) slightly and drop it into the flour well. Combine the eggs and flour together, adding enough water to make dough. Water should be lukewarm (not too cold and not too warm).Knead dough well, until it gets smooth. Cover the dough, so that cannot run away and start grinding cheese. Work

2023-12-07T09:22:33+00:00By |Cerovlje, Gastro, Pets, |