Active tourism Vrsar

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.

On the west coast of the Istrian peninsula, just 9 km away from Porec near the estuary of the Lim channel, is situated a little tourist and fisherman place Vrsar.

The area around Vrsar was inhabited in the prehistoric era, of which testify the traces of the paleontoligical culture found in the cave of saint Romuald situated above the channel of Lim. The Histrions were the first known habitants of this area of the peninsula, which, along the cattle breeding and the agriculture, were trading with the stones and amber with Greeks. From the Roman period are conserved the remains of the summer residences and the mosaics, while the main gate of the city and many other monuments are dating from the XIII century. In the middle age Vrsar was a place where bishops and aristocrats had their possessions. As on of the most significant witnesses of the history we have to mention the old Castle with it's defensive walls on the peak of the hill. One of the interesting things to mention is that Giacomo Casanova was one...