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Self-Guided Walk
Welcome to Motovun
(See “Motovun” map, here .)
The following commentary will bring some meaning to your Motovun hilltop stroll. The
walkbeginsatthetrafficbarrierhalfwayupthehill(thehighestyoucandriveunlessyou're
sleeping at Hotel Kaštel).
The main drag leading up into town is lined with wine-and-truffle shops. My favorite
is the Lan č a family's Etnobutiga Č A (just above the parking lot on the right, at Gradiziol
33). This restored 17th-century house has a beautiful view terrace and a wide selection of
local wines, brandies, and truffle products (most of them from the Zigante company, just
across the valley); they also have a restaurant with grand views (Pod Napun). Like many
people around here, Livio Lan č a makes his own mistletoe brandy laced with honey (Easter-
Oct daily 10:00-22:00, off-season closed Mon, closed Feb-mid-March, tel. 052/681-767).
Hike several more steep minutes up the hill, passing more local-products shops, truffles,
and jewelry boutiques. Soon you'll reach yet another traffic barrier at the base of the town's
wall (and the recommended Mondo Konoba restaurant). Continuing up past the barrier,
you'll earn grand views on the right—the little town across the valley floor is Livade, the
heart of all that truffle commerce—then go through the first of two defensive gateways.
Inside this passage (under the fortified gate), notice the various insignias from Motovun's
historyliningthewalls—lookfortheVenetianlion,theLatinfamilytombstone,andtheseal
ofMotovun(withapyramidoffivetowersbeingwatchedoverbyanangel).Theareaabove
the gate was a storehouse for weapons in the 15th century, when Motovun first flourished.
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