Attractions

Rovinj is small enough to see in a day and good enough to stay a week. The old town is the attraction — a Venetian fishing town on a peninsula, built tight and upwards, with the bell tower of St Euphemia on top of it. Most of what is worth doing is within twenty minutes of the harbour.

The things everyone does, and whether they are worth it

The climb to St Euphemia. Steep, stepped, and worth it. Go early or go at the end of the day; the middle of an August afternoon is punishing. The view from the top is the photograph you came for.

The old town itself. Not a museum — people live in it. Wander without a plan, look up, and accept that you will get briefly lost. Grisia, the street of artists, is the one everybody walks.

Zlatni rt (Punta Corrente). The pine park south of town. Walking, cycling, swimming and shade, and the closest thing Rovinj has to a park in the ordinary sense.

The Batana House. A small ecomuseum about the local flat-bottomed fishing boat. Twenty minutes, and it explains more about the town than an afternoon of walking does.

Out of town

The Limski kanal, the Brijuni islands and the archipelago in front of Rovinj are all day trips rather than afternoons. We run and book excursions to all of them — see the tours page, or ask us what is actually running on your dates, because the schedule changes with the season.