Motovun, Grožnjan and Poreč full-day tour

Welcome to the Middle Ages! By looking at the quaint villages of green Istria, its rolling hills, and fruit trees, it is difficult to recognize that this is where wars were fought, where people lived behind walls to survive. Now it's all about truffles, art galleries and coffee sipping. This tour will give you a chance of getting a bit further from the coast, away from the gelato culture of holiday-makers. Forgotten by most, inland Istria continued at its own, genuine pace, while the coastal areas knew important development from the 1950s on. It won't be before some thirty years ago that the area will slowly start to wake up offering its charms to travelers. Today, this small area of roughly 25 x 10 miles encompasses beautiful scenery, old stone villages, truffles, olive oil and wine. Motovun and Grožnjan will give you an idea of what life in the dark ages would have been like while Poreč, with its 6th-century gold mosaics cathedral, is a testimony of the very beginning of Christianity.