Active tourism Agrotourism in Istria

Active tourism is a temporary travel and stay, which is the main motive for recreation, outside his residence. Because of the need to participate in physical activities, visits and desires for watching various sporting events or any active or passive involvement in sporting activities on a personal level or the organized tourist destination for tourists prepare a variety of sports and recreational offerings. Thus, the capacity of accommodations are sports fields, gyms, fitness gym and other sports and recreational facilities are increasingly under the control of professional trainers. For lovers of active tourism prepared various adventure specialties such as rafting, kayaking, scuba diving, paragliding, climbing the cliffs of mountains, diving the depths of the sea, the wild nature cycling, caving, air tourism and other ordinary and unusual sports. The nature of man's movement, and accelerated pace of life, stress and more sitting and not moving during the work, on vacation people make up sport.

Agrotourism in Istra is a specific type of tourism where the leading motive of travelling is a return to nature.

The beginning of agritourism reach deep in history when only rich people,  from towns, could afford themselves to have a vacation which most of the time was on a countryside visiting friends and family. Today the rural tourism became a modern phenomenon and even if this area is still developing it attracts more and more tourists in Croatia and in the whole World.

Agritourism represents a vacation in peaceful and greenness surroundings first of all, along with enjoying homemade gastronomic specialties. For the lovers of this type of tourism the accommodation is offered in small family run hotels, private houses, apartments and rooms surrounded with big  manors,  located in the inner part of the Istrian peninsula - the so called Green Istra.  Such accommodation is available in the towns of Pazin, Žminj and Motovun and many other villages in their surroundings and in the centre of Istra.

Pazin it's the heart of the peninsula and represents the centre of...