Dvigrad was once home to around 2,000 people, but now it lies empty. The black death turned it into Istria's own ghost ...

It’s not all tartufi and vino on this postcard-pretty peninsula. Here are some of Istria’s unexpected aspects we bet you didn’t know. Istria’s environment rivals Eden Istria sits on the 45th parallel, ...

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Driving south from Trieste, Italy, the first corner of Croatia you encounter is the triangular peninsula called Istria. On my last trip, I never made it any farther. Now being touted as the “new ...

BALE, Croatia, Oct 21 (Reuters) - In just 15 years, Croatia's Istrian peninsula in the nothern Adriatic has become one of the world's best producers of olive oil, decorated with top industry awards.

I probably reached peak Istria when I went for breakfast at Karlić Tartufi, a truffle farm and restaurant in the center of this region in the far northwest of Croatia. One of the owners greeted me in ...

Whatever happens in Croatian tourism probably happened in Istria first. The same might be said of boutique wine. It was the Istrian emphasis on small-scale quality, exemplified by local growers such ...

Centrally isolated. That’s the slogan of Suzanne James Penavić’s alma mater, Cornell University. It’s also the way she describes the passion project that she’s spent the past five years undertaking ...