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THE GOLDEN AGE OF
AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN PULA |
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LOCATION: Pula |
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DURATION: up to 2 hrs |
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SIGHTSEEING TOUR AVAILABLE:
all year round |
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SIGHTS: Naval Cemetery
–built in 1862. Naval Church (Our Lady of the
Sea)1891 – 1898, one-nave
basilica, built in the New
Romanesque style. Theater –
INK (Istrian National Theater),
former Politteama Ciscuti, built
in 1880, designed by the Trieste
architect Beltrama. Market –
one of the most beautiful
European green markets, hidden
among the shades of the wild
chestnuts; iron and glass were
used as the newest building
material for the first time in
Pula in the early 20th Century;
also called the kid sister of
the Budapest market place. Castle
(Kaštel)-the Medieval Kaštel
was built in the 17th Century,
when Istria was under direct
rule of Venice; made out of big
slabs of stones, originally
forming the Large Roman Theater
located on the slopes of the
hill Montezaro, Kaštel was built
with the purpose of defending
the city from the frequent
pirate attacks; designed by the
French architect Antoine de
Ville.
House of the Armed Forces
– built in 1914, former Marine
Casino |
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PROGRAM:
With the rising of the Austrian
Empire, Pula reaches its golden
ages as it becomes Austria’s
main naval base with the arsenal
for the Austro – Hungarian navy.
That is how a ‘dead town’ (which
is how the Austrians used to
call Pula after the fall of
Venice) rises into a 19th
Century mitteleuropean town with
a cosmopolitan mentality.
Infrastructure flourishes -
roads, railway system, Marine
Casino, the first hotel, Naval
hospital, Naval church and Naval
cemetery …are built, along with
the defensive system of forts
used for protection of Austria’s
main naval base. Ten languages
were spoken in Pula at the time,
and Brijuni Islands, an
archipelago close to Pula,
become a popular meeting place
of the European and world elite.
Pula nowadays, as well as at the
beginning of the 20th century,
has about 65,000 inhabitants. |
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