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Vodnjan is a little town situated in the south-west of Istria, 12 kilometres from Pula. It is an area of ancient traditions developing on the remnants of the prehistoric forts which have existed in the wider area since ancient times. Vodnjan managed to maintain its outstanding characteristics of a Medieval urban and rural centre. Its wide area with innumerable characteristic kažuni or casite (little stone houses) built in the technique of dry-stone walls denoting property stands as witness to a millennium of its inhabitants being engaged in agriculture, especially olive-growing and wine-growing as the basis of their own material prosperity.The streets of Vodnjan still strongly evoke the past: from the Gothic palace of the Bettica counts and faces engraved in the stone facades, to decorations made of wrought iron on the wells and the wooden engraved doors of important palaces and the elegant Church of St. Mary of Carmel (built in 1630). The town still has a large number of people descended from the indigenous popuion called "Bumbari" with a thousand year old roots. They have been passing down their Istrian-Roman and Istrian-Venetian dialects to generations, together with a rich local folklore, valuable multicoloured national costumes, hair accessories, hundreds of years old song and dance traditions and celebrations.
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