Apartments Vila Marinela

Would you like to enjoy the beautiful walks by the sea and quietly spend your vacation? Apartments are located in Mali Maj (10 minutes walk from the seashore - about 600m), grocery store and restaurants are in vicinity and about 2,5 km from the town center. Apartments have two, three or four beds with additional bed possible. Apartments have TWC, mini kitchen, living room, sat-tv, 1 or 2 bedrooms and balcony with sea-view or nature-view. It is possible to use open fireplace and your own parking space, in the garden use of the open swimming pool-11,0 * 5,5 meters.

Beach Spadici-Materada is an urban beach located 2,5 km north from the City of Porec. The beach is mainly made of cement in combination with rocks. The beach has life guards (8 am - 7 pm), life-saving facilities, first-aid, recycable waste facilities, etc., and a blue flag for quallity.The location includes one of the first nudist campsites on the Adria - Ulika, situated near a long, beautiful, rocky but well-maintained beach and ringed by large olive-groves. A path along the coast of the Cove of St. Martin leads to the hotels Materada, Turist and Luna with their annexes. Preserved nature and crystal clear sea.

Porec is a tourist centre famous for its beautiful natural landscape, long tradition in tourism and several well-equipped tourist resorts: Plava and Zelena Laguna (Blue and Green Lagoon), Brulo, Pical, Spadici. In 1844 the steamers society, the Austrian Lloyd from Trieste, opened a tourist line which included Porec, and already in 1845 the first tourist guide of Porec was printed. After having founded a meteorological station in Porec in 1863, Marquis Polesini had a castle built on the islet of St. Nicholas, in which many prominent persons stayed after visiting St. Euphrasius' Basilica. In the 1880s Porec had many distinguished visitors. The first hotel (Alla citta di Trieste) was built in Porec. The first public beach in Porec was constructed in 1895 on the islet of St. Nicholas, and in 1910. Since 1900, when the regulation about the price lists for dishes, drinks and rooms was passed, Porec has been investing much in tourism, and in the 1970s it became one of the most prestigious Croatian tourist resorts, offering alle kind of holiday accommodation.

Being a tourist resort with the largest number of hotels, apartments, campsites, rooms, Porec has a diverse tourist offer. There are numerous tennis courts, gyms, sports grounds, together with horseback riding, water-skiing, bungee jumping, yachting and diving opportunities.

Many cultural events are organized throughout the year: classical music concerts (from May to September) in St. Euphrasius' Basilica, jazz evenings in the Museum of Porec (stone collection department) or picturesque folk feasts in nearby Tar and Funtana. A tourist train runs regularly through Porec. There is also a marina in Porec. A small airport for aerial sports, Crljenka, is located in nearby Vrsar.

All of the old city of Porec is a tourist stage; this is a place where you can learn from the historical monuments, read from the facades and stone paved streets from the Roman era. The most unique monument is Euphrasius' Basilica, an early Christian cathedral, but there are many other symbols of 2000 years of history of the city. The old heart of the city of Poreč is also a great place to have fun. Ancient Decamanus, the main street of the old city, is a perfect promenade during the summer. Even if you haven't planned anything, something will draw your attention: jazz in the ancient stone collection garden or classical music concert in the Basilica, summer cocktails on the ancient Marafor Square, or simply watch the streams of people passing by.

Wherever you go in the old city, everything has a distinctive charm because it pulsates both with ancient and modern times. Some ofthe streets and squares are the stage of the summer Street art.

Whether you choose to stay at the tourist complex or in a hotel near the city, there are warious sports fields nearby and the spring is the best season to experience the Poreč region on a bicycle. The scent of flowery Mediterranean fields will lure you, and if you look carefully what the folks are doing in thewoods, you might learn to pick wild asparagus, a local specialty. When you gettired of pedalling, you can play tennis or some indoors sports, ride a korse or sail. You have never played boccie, this is the opportunity to learn the sport that is becoming more popular in Europe.

Spring is also ideal for trips to other Istrian towns, which are interesting for their cultural and historical heritage. The significance of tourist facilities in the Poreč region is that they are organized in such a way that they are suitable for the vacation of the entire family. You don't have to try any of the 165 courts, but when you are at the seaside try water sports, the equipment needed can be rented at any tourist resort and at sport centars. They will even offer you a mini-course.

While you spend time on yourselves, children will be amused by trained entertainers.