Interesting

Istria is the largest Croatian and Adriatic peninsula, a place whose heavenly guardian angels emerge from her every pore, bare rock, prosciutto and grape vines.

Geographically, the western Istria it meandering and slightly shallower, while the eastern steep and less populated. Istrians or dialect called Istrijani never stopped investing in their region, primarily the caring hands of the peasants, and then an immense love of every individual who has stepped in Istria and thereby fell in love with all its blessings.

Except Croatian language, inhabitants of Istria speak many dialects of which the most prominent is "čakavski", together with some more complex dialects like žminjski, labinski or buzetski but distributed to smaller local areas.

In addition, big part of citizens have dual citizenship and most often, with Croatian one, they have Slovenian or Italian citizenship.

According to the some belives and sources Istria was named to the Histri, an Illyrian tribe that lived in this area. An interesting fact is that the Romans considerd Illyrians  dangerous pirates who skillfully know how to use an indented coastline for seamless navigation and conquest.

Istria has many specific features, and one of them is definitely the color of earth on the ground which we share on the red, gray and white one. That is, the Red Istria area is the west coast where the predominant is red earth; red and brown earth is very rich in humus soil. The central part of the peninsula of Istria is isolated as a Gray Istria because of gray, clay soil. Last but not least important part comprises Učka slopes and the eastern part of the peninsula, called the White Istria where the predominant white country, and indeed much of the stone limestone soil.