Active tourism Zminj

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.

Zminj is a city located 35km north of the city of Pula with its old city centre sitting at 379m above sea level and the newer parts in its surrounding flatlands.
The regions surrounding Zminj are fascinating due to their development in agrotourism and excursions to the caves of “Festinsko Kraljevstvo”. Zminj’s surrounding rural catering establishments are known for their authentic Istrian cuisine and traditional settings.
Old Istrian houses have been adapted for agrotourism where visitors can find accommodations (apartments and rooms) and try wonderful homemade Istrian cuisine while enjoying some peace and quiet in a natural setting.
The people of Zminj annually celebrate the holiday of Bartulja, St. Bartola Day, which is the biggest festivity in Istria and visited by thousands. Zminj is home to the Cakavski assembly which originated in the year 1969. This assembly promotes the traditional Istrian dialect of Cakavski and it is a centre where groups of young poets and songwriters come together and prepare events dedicated to Cakavski literature.
Zminj was first mentioned in the year 1177. Archaeological findings tell a story...