The karst, an arid, harsh, barren and stony land, furrowed by the icy gusts of the bora that split its slopes, exacerbates the work of agriculture that the Julian and Istrian peoples have nevertheless been able to exploit, adapting and alternating vineyards and sheep farming field after field. The Istrian sheep, symbol of Istria, also known as carsolina or dalmata-karsica developed in the northern Adriatic and in the Italian, Slovenian and Croatian karst plateau, derived from the crossbreeding of Italian animals with Balkan sheep, brought mainly by the Dacian community. Arriving in the Karst with the Ottoman invasion in the 17th century, it was raised in the karst areas. The flocks...