Piran has returned to celebrate its patron saint, St. George, and the legends associated with him. The legend has been revived that in the 14th century, the saint, invoked by the faithful, saved the people of Piran from a terrible storm that threatened to sweep away their homes. As a sign of thanksgiving, every year around April 23rd, the Patron Saint's Day is celebrated, which in the past was linked to another important event for the people of Piran: the beginning of work on the salt pans. This article is from the Italian-language daily newspaper of the eastern Adriatic. The Voice of the People: https://lavoce.hr/cronaca/capodistriano/pirano-celebrati-il-patrono-san-giorgio-ei-salinai  

Erected under Austria in 1872, and therefore almost sixty years later than the much more imposing one in Salvore (inaugurated in 1818), the Punta Madonna lighthouse is one of the main attractions of Piran and the only one in Slovenia. Director Franco Juri is grateful for the Municipality's decision to entrust its management to the Maritime Museum, with the renovation of the exterior now nearing completion. He also thanks those, and most recently for five years the Piran Town Hall, who took care of it before the Museum, ensuring its opening to the public. He explains: "We have been entrusted with an important task. The Piran lighthouse is a symbol of this city that stretches...

The exhibition "Testimonies of Venetianness in the Municipal Archives of Piran and the figure of its curator, Count Stefano Rota" has been opened at the Tartini House: the exhibition is curated by the Society of Historical and Geographical Studies of Piran, which has created it in collaboration with several partners, from the Combi Centre of Koper to the Italian Communities of Piran and Momjan to the Padua Committee of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia Poet, man of letters, scholar and Latinist, but also a music enthusiast and amateur composer. All this was Count Stefano Rota, belonging to the Piran branch of the feudal lords of Momjan, who in the second half...

The Science and Research Centre in Koper has launched a pilot project consisting of a web application aimed at collecting data on water sources in Piran. Researchers from the Centre's Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies, Cécil Meulenberg, Erik Kralj and Peter Kumer, successfully launched the new application in mid-June, based in particular on the research work of Daniela Paliaga Janković, which was included in the 2017 publication “Searching for Water in Squares and Courtyards: A Catalogue of Cisterns and Fountains in Piran Yesterday and Today”. Architectural devices for obtaining drinking water in Piran date back to the time of the...

The Piran Lighthouse was filled with history, art and memories, in the setting of a characteristic sunset of the coastal town. An exhibition that took the public back in time, to the 60s, when Tomos motorcycles were celebrated, and which put on display exclusive vintage photographs. We spoke with one of the curators, Stevo Vujič, president of the Tomos Association, who explained how the exhibition was prepared. “It starts from Črni Kal and ends in Pula. There are all these scooters in the most representative places of Istria, with models dressed according to the fashion of those years. This exhibition does not only display the...

The ancient traditions, flavors and smells of the Saline, this is the heritage that we want to preserve with initiatives such as "La cucina delle Saline". This was explained in the initial presentation by the president of the Can di Pirano, Andrea Bartole, who added that with these events we want to give visibility to the salt pans and the entire natural park, to increase visits. Fulvia Zudič, active in the organization of this event, also thanked the Can di Isola for its collaboration, represented, in this case, by the Italian deputy mayor of Isola, Agnese Babič, who was present at the event. In addition to the presentation of the book "Sapore di Mare, l'antica cucina istriana" by...

With a particularly rich and varied musical program and many prominent names sharing the stage with the Solisti Veneti directed by Giuliano Carella, the Veneto Festival (Giuseppe Tartini International Festival) returns, its 53rd edition, starting Tuesday at the Auditorium Pollini in Padua. On the occasion of the inaugural concert, an all-Mozartian program and exceptional soloist the flautist Massimo Mercelli. For over half a century, the Veneto Festival has been one of the most important events in the musical life of the Veneto and with its itinerant formula it brings the extraordinary performances of the Solisti to villas, churches, places of art throughout the Region and beyond. Thus, on July 23, in Cividale del...