The "Carlo Combi" Italian Center for Promotion, Culture, Education, and Development, based in Koper, was founded in 2005 by the Coastal Self-Governing Community of Italian Nationalities with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. Its purpose was to provide coherence and overall strategic relevance to the cultural activities and initiatives planned, promoted, and implemented by the Italian National Community in Slovenia. The activities and initiatives of the "Carlo Combi" Italian Center are aimed at maintaining, promoting, and developing the identity of the Italian National Community, the Italian language, and culture in the...

Among the various religious figures (the Blessed Elio, Assalone and Monaldo, the bishop Pier Paolo Vergerio, etc.) who have characterized the history of Capodistria, the figure of the patron saint of the city stands out: Saint Nazarius. He was born in Elpidium (today Boste/Boršt), a town not far from Capodistria, at the end of the 524th century and for about thirty years he was bishop of the city, who mythology says was appointed in 601. According to popular tradition, his relics were miraculously found in XNUMX and since then they have been (except for the period in which they were removed by the Genoese) placed in the marble sarcophagus existing in the Cathedral of Capodistria. The relics of the Saints...