Poreč

Poreč

Poreč offers something for every taste – courts for sporting activities, restaurants, clubs, beautiful scenery and plentiful entertainment options for children. You’ll find this and so much more in the hotels, camps and apartments of Laguna Poreč.

Poreč is a small town on the west coast of Istria, a large, triangular peninsula pointing down into the northern Adriatic. The town has a long history dating back to Roman Empire. From ancient Roman times to the present day more than two thousand years have passed, and the streets of Poreč continue to preserve their original architecture and numerous cultural and historical monuments. The old town still has a typical roman street layout; it’s mostly symmetrical, with two main intersecting streets – Decumanus Maximus (stretching from east to west), and Cardo Maximus (stretching from north to south). Due to Istria’s turbulent history, Poreč was surrounded with walls for centuries, and two of the towers still remain, guarding the entrance into the old city centre. Porec is rich in history in clture. The town’s main sight, the Euphrasian Basilica with its distinctive mosaics dating from the 6th century which UNESCO recognised and protected as a world heritage site in 1997.