Marina Vrsar

The village and port of Vrsar are located on the west coast of Istria and today is a famous tourist place with a developed catering and tourist offer. In front of Vrsar is one of the most beautiful archipelagos with eighteen uninhabited islands. There is also the Koversada naturist camp, which is considered to be the largest of its kind in Europe. We find the name of the city in various variants: Ursaria, Orsaria, Vrsarium. At the root, he preserved the old word ur, which means source. In the 5th century, a larger centre with an early Christian church was founded. The oldest building phase of the castle on the top of the hill, and the church of Sv. Foška from the 17th century and the three-nave basilica of St. Mary of the Sea. The church of Sv. Anton, Renaissance-Baroque style, and the parish church of St. Construction of St. Martin on the top of the hill began in 1804. And was not completed until 1935. Between the 12th and 17th centuries, there were salt pans and numerous quarries in the Vrsar Bay. Venetian palaces, bridges and churches rise from the Vrsar stone, the famous Pietre di Orsera. Here come the famous sculptors of that time (Leonardo Tagliapietra, Antonio Rizzo). It is also recorded that Vrsar was visited by Pope Alexander III in 1177, and in the 18th century on two occasions by the famous adventurer Giacomo Casanova.