CinX's Travels 2015

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Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

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Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

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Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

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Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

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Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

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Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rovinj by cinxxx, on Flickr

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Hum (Italian: Colmo; German: Cholm) is a town in the central part of Istria, northwest Croatia, 7 km from Roč. The elevation is 349 m.

It has a population of only 17 people (2001 census), but is officially a town.

On its western side, the town is enclosed by walls and on the remaining sides houses are built into the defensive walls. It was first mentioned in documents dating from 1102, at which time it was called Cholm which is derived from the Italian name Colmo. A bell and watch tower was built in 1552 as part of the town's defenses beside the town loggia. The present Parish Church of St. Jerome (Sveti Jeromim) with its classical facade was built in 1802 on the side of an earlier church which was built by the local master Juraj Gržinič.

The "Hum Glagolitic wall writings" are preserved in the church, written in the formative period of Glagolitic (the second half of the 12th century) and they are one of the oldest examples of Croatian Glagolitic literary culture in the Middle Ages. The town museum displays a few Glagolitic writings.

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Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

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Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

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Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

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Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

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Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

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Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

Hum by cinxxx, on Flickr

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Rijeka (Croatian pronunciation: [rijɛ̌ːka]; Slovene: Reka; Italian and Hungarian: Fiume; German: Pflaum) is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia (after Zagreb and Split). It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,624 inhabitants (2011). The metropolitan area, which includes adjacent towns and municipalities, has a population of 245,054 (2011).

Historically, because of its strategic position and its excellent deep-water port, the city was fiercely contested, especially among Italy, Hungary, and Croatia, changing hands and demographics many times over centuries. According to the 2011 census data, the overwhelming majority of its citizens (82.52%) are presently Croats, along with small numbers of Bosniaks, Italians and Serbs.

Rijeka is the chief city of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. The city's economy largely depends on shipbuilding (shipyards "3. Maj" and "Viktor Lenac Shipyard") and maritime transport. Rijeka hosts the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc, first built in 1765, as well as the University of Rijeka, founded in 1973 but with roots dating back to 1632 School of Theology.

Linguistically, apart from Croatian, the population also uses its own unique version of the Venetian language, (Fiumano), with an estimated 20,000 speakers among the autochtone Croats and various minorities. Historically Fiumano served as a lingua franca for the many ethnicities inhabiting the multicultural port-town.

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Rijeka by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rijeka by cinxxx, on Flickr

Rijeka by cinxxx, on Flickr