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tip of Istria is big, industrial Pula, offering a bustling urban contrast to the rest of the time-
passed coastline, plus some impressive Roman ruins (including an amphitheater so remark-
ably intact, you'll marvel that you haven't heard of it before). Just offshore are the Brijuni
Islands—once the stomping grounds of Marshal Tito, whose ghost still haunts a national
park peppered with unexpected attractions.
But Croatia is more than the sea, and diverse Istria offers some of the country's most ap-
pealing reasons to head inland. In the Istrian interior, between humble concrete towns cry-
ing out for a paint job, you'll find vintners painstakingly reviving a delicate winemaking
tradition, farmers pressing that last drop of oil out of their olives, trained dogs sniffing out
truffles in primeval forests, and a smattering of fortified medieval hill towns with sweeping
views over the surrounding terrain—including the justifiably popular village of Motovun.
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